Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year Eliot House will put out a year book for the first time. Homer Wick '42, has taken on his capable shoulders the job of editing it. He will be assisted by a willing group of House members, amateur camera fans, short story writers, and budding businessmen...
There were five main spearheads to the Italian attack (see map, p. 26). The most important Italian effort was aimed at Ioannina, in Epirus. Homer located Hell in Epirus, and the Italians saw why last week. It is only about 35 miles as the airplane flies from the Albanian border to Ioannina; but on the ground the miles stand on end. The terrain is violently mountainous. There are no railroads, and most of the roads are little better than shepherd trails. The area is crisscrossed with low valleys, and last week torrential rains made horrible mud ponds of the roads...
...show itself, great tribute was paid to the Carnegie Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, distinguished-looking under his shock of grey hair and the burden of his sculptor father's great name. Assistant Director John O'Connor Jr. was the man who did most of the work. Despite the fact that it was primitively lighted and awkwardly arranged, the show was a top-notch survey of U. S. art, eclipsing even the fine one put on two summers ago by the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan...
Well represented in the show were early U. S. portraitists, 19th-Century genre painters, the top-notch trio of Homer, Ryder and Eakins. There were plenty of surprising items: a huge, romantic, melodramatic scene by Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins...
...Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42, San Diego, Calif.; John A. Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park, Pa.; Floyd G. Werner '43, Ottawa, III.; Homer C. Wick, Jr. '41, Washington, D. C.; William H. Witt '41, Seattle, Wash.; and Joseph M. Young '43, Greenville, Miss