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Eleven o'clock rules last spring meant women, parties and drinking, those "Three Horsemen" of college social life, were in the Houses at night. But this grant of freedom was abused only by those people who would abuse it at the regular parietal hours. Eleven o'clock rules this fall will mean more women, more parties, and more drinking. The masters have only to decide whether the late rules will mean so much more that the social conduct of House members will turn suddenly irresponsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Past Performance | 9/29/1953 | See Source »

First came an enormous bronze "crater" (vase) weighing 350 lbs. On its handles were busts of gorgons intertwined with snakes. There were also sculptured horsemen, chariots and foot soldiers. The crater is probably Greek, but its conical lid with the statue of a robed woman is more archaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

After the Kentucky Derby, where Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer was beaten by a head, horsemen decided that Vanderbilt had been stretching a point when he called the big grey "the first great horse I ever owned." After the Preakness, which Native Dancer won by a neck, this verdict was modified: the Dancer was a fine horse, but he would have to show more before he could be ranked with the Man o' Wars, Citations and Whirlaways. Last week, in the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, racing's most exacting test for three-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Test of Three-Year-Olds | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...Dancer, winning his 14th race in 15 starts, brought his total earnings to $522,745, eighth place among alltime winners. Horsemen could finally agree that 1953 would go down as the Dancer's year; it was also apparent that Jamie K., owned , by International Boxing Club President Jim Norris, looked like a horse of the year in almost any year but the Dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Test of Three-Year-Olds | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...more traditional approach to the subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Murals from the Party | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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