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...come due. By now the average browser has collected six to ten different reading lists and notes to first lectures and his head is buzzing with requirements and conflicts of requirements. Perhaps one of the following courses meeting this morning will be the saving ray of light in the gloom...
Barring rain, snow, hail, sleet, gloom of night, or incompetence in high places, every student will soon see his grades. But the man who wants his bluebook back may find that some departments won't let him do more than peck...
Carnival, an escape into childhood by a Chicago advertising man named Georg Bromberg, was pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
Night & Day. The new World-Telegram and the Sun got off to a fast start with a first-day run of 700,000 copies. Besides the jawbreaking name, the W-T-&-S retained both of the familiar logotypes: the Telly's lighthouse steadfastly dispelled the gloom of night while the Sun's sun heralded the break...
...burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...