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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The House | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...city of Philadelphia, once so distant, finally grew out to the Shall-cross-Roberts house; the three acres remaining of the farm were almost surrounded by new row houses. The Robertses stubbornly refused to sell. Last year the itch for modernity got the better of grandson William I. Roberts III - he bought a new house in Levittown, Pa. and moved out with his son William I. Roberts IV. The old place seemed empty. Last week Owner Roberts, now 74, finally sold out for a "price that would knock your hat in the creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The House | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Examination GroupFinal Examination I Friday, June 4 II Wednesday, June 2 III Thursday, May 27 IV Tuesday, June 1 V Thursday, June 3 VI Wednesday, May 26 VII Friday, May 28 VIII Friday, June 4 IX Friday, June 4 X Tuesday, June 8 XI Monday, June 7 XII Saturday, May 29 XIII Saturday, June 5 XIV Friday, May 28 XV Tuesday, June 8 XVI Tuesday, June 8 XVII Wednesday, May 26 XVIII Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams Will Be Held From May 26-June 8 | 4/13/1954 | See Source »

...bulky, played five sonatas by Beethoven with the virility and technique of a man half his age. He began with the tried & true Pathétique, swirled through the Tempest, rippled through Les Adieux, produced a playful Opus 79 and summed everything up with a lofty performance of Opus III. "One of the greatest evenings ... of Beethoven's piano music [in a quarter century]," raved the New York Times's Olin Downes. "Mr. Backhaus was young with Beethoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Triumphal Return | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...show, in fact, is rather like a hit on the head. The canvas, a coal-black rectangle all of 13½ feet wide, is decorated with a smeary white explosion centering on what looks like a tangle of crimson worms. That is all, and the title, Homage to Philip III, "The Bold,"* was clearly not intended as an aid to understanding. The painting was no beauty in the ordinary sense of the word, and expressed no more meaning than a wordless shout in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shout in the Dark | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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