Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell flowers corsages at the dance following the performance from 10 to 12 p.m. In Memorial Hall. Proceeds from these sales, in addition to the intake for the "Drumbeats" performance will benefit the Radcliffe Student Government "Grant-in-Aid" Fund. The fund, established last term through the recommendation of Jean Braverman '50, president of the Radcliffe Student Government Association, will help students in need of small grants of money...
Chairmen include Cynthia Sweeney '50, in charge of programming; Georgianne Davis '51, publicity; Jean O'Brien '51, tickets; Marcia Hildreth '50, dance; Mia Atherton '51, ushers; Helen Bernstein '51, snack bar; Cynthia Williams '51, snack bar tenders; Gloria Wagstaff '52, program editor; Mary Kay Jensen '51, patroness lists; and Martha McCabe '53, flowers...
...Married. Jean Stafford, 34, novelist (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) ; and Oliver Jensen, 35, LIFE staff writer; both for the second time (her first husband was Poet Robert Lowell); in Manhattan...
...crafts. Most art-reproduction firms, Janine explained, "concentrate on color alone. But a painting has texture as well. To simulate that we use dozens of materials: cardboard, paper, stencils, canvas, silk screens . . . Sometimes we use as many as seven different processes to reproduce one original." Janine and Jean had built each blob of pigment up to the same thickness as that in the original paintings. They made as many as 600 facsimiles of each painting, sold them for $15 to $20 in Paris. The copies will soon be retailed in the U.S. at $40 each...
Janine and Jean made their first facsimile a year and a half ago; since then they have reproduced a new original each month. In 1950 they expect to work back through the impressionists, and afterwards tackle Rembrandt, whose thick underpainting overlaid with transparent oil glazes will be particularly hard to simulate. Old masters, they point out, have limited lifetimes. "By making facsimiles before [the originals] deteriorate and then reproducing the facsimiles we can prolong their lifetimes indefinitely...