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...chance that Lausche would make good on a vague campaign implication to vote with the G.O.P. on organization (TIME. Oct. 22), Republican Leader William Knowland had called New York's new Senator Jacob Javits to Washington for the opening. Uneager to take his Senate seat until a reconvening New York assembly outfoxes Governor Averell Harriman and elects a Republican to succeed him as New York's Attorney General, Javits was not sworn in. But he kept within three minutes' hailing distance, on the chance that Lausche's vote and his own would throw the Senate into...
Negro Painter Jacob Lawrence seldom tries to cover a whole subject on one canvas. In 20 years he has turned out nine series of paintings on such subjects as Haitian Emperor Toussaint L'Ouverture, Negro migration, and Abolitionist John Brown. The success of his approach is attested to by the fact that six of the series have ended up intact in top U.S. museums or public collections. For his latest, 30 small 12-in.-by-16 in. tempera panels (of an eventual 60), Painter Lawrence, 39, has broadened his range, taken in not only the Negro, but the whole...
Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship for 1956-57. The scholarship is given yearly to a member of the sophomore class who is judged by the committee the most promising scholar in his class...
...JACOB G. MOSES...
Fronts & Masses. About the time of World War I, Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes of Norway and his son Jacob decided that the fractious cyclones, though they may be 1,000 miles across, are only minor bit-players in the weather drama. The leading players are enormous masses of cold, dry air that sweep down from the polar regions at irregular intervals. The Bjerknes theory, emphasizing fronts and air masses rather than cyclones, lit up meteorology like a new sun rising, and upgraded it into a more exact science. It is still the basis of the familiar newspaper weather maps...