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Battery practice resulted in nothing more than a shock for the Mount Auburn Street humorists when they discovered that Prexy Coles Phinizy, slated to take the mound Thursday when the two teams meet in their annual jeu de baseball (Fr.), didn't know how to use resin or cut plug and had never heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shivering Lampy Awaits Ballgame | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...years ago Manhattan's up & coming Museum of Modern Art decided to invade Paris, to show the Parisians what U. S. artists had accomplished. Backed by its president and chief angel, genial, glamorless Nelson Rockefeller, the Museum staged an exhibition of U. S. art at the Jeu de Paume Gallery near the Louvre, invited Paris to come and take a look. So successful was the venture that the Modern Museum decided to go on from there, show Paris the artistic achievements of other American countries. Last summer President Rockefeller went to Mexico City to make arrangements for a Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexican Show | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...best, of course, were tiger pictures, and the best of the tiger pictures was the vast 0 China, Roar Like These Tigers panel which last spring crowded 3,000 visitors into the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, helped bring its creator a decoration from President Lebrun of France. Its 21 down-leaping tigers represent China's war-awakened provinces. Of their models, said Chang: "It is just as well about the tigers' dying. I am an old man and tigers need a strong master; hereafter I paint from memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Three Centuries of American Art (May 1938), shown in Paris at the Jeu de Paume Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Doings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Igor Stravinsky (Fri. 4:10 p. m. CBS) directs the Turin Orchestra in his own Apollon Musagète, Jeu de Cartes by short wave from Turin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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