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Of all the great masters of French 19th-Century painting, only one had U. S. blood in his veins, or ever visited and painted in the U. S. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum of Art gave that painter, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, the most comprehensive show of his works ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Franco-American | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

The lintel appears to depict a ceremonial harangue by a Mayan chieftain, sitting cross-legged on an altar and flanked by bowls of fruit. Artist Baker interprets the scene thus: The two standing figures at extreme left, paying no attention, are absorbed in their own argument, while the next man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

No dilettante, Cabot Lodge is a hardworking, ambitious politician who gained much support even from labor during his two terms in the State Senate, a thorough campaigner whose filing cabinets bulge with data on his constituency, and on his enemies. In the past year he visited nearly every hamlet in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Senators, Saved & Lost | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Members of the Orr School are the Philadelphia Inquirer's one-legged, cigar-chewing Hugh Hutton, whose Brain Truster is more ominously idiotic than Hearstling Swinnerton's, and the Los Angeles Times's young Bruce Russell, whose Franklin Roosevelt is the ugliest of the lot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lost Laughter | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Last July 15, the Giants were in fifth place, nearer sixth than fourth. They won 33 of their next 38 games to take the league lead, grimly held onto it through the late summer stretch while the Cubs and Cardinals helped put each other out of the race. All told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Equinoctial Climax | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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