Word: longman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rockwood H. Foster '45, of Eliot House and Charles River, Massachusetts, is the squash captain for next year. One of the strongest men on the team, Foster finished the campaign by downing Princeton's ace, Longman, and then advancing as far as the quarter-final round in the Inter-collegiate Tournament at Dartmouth last week...
Some lowans liked what they saw-others sent letters of protest to the show's director, Lester D. Longman, who is trying to convince his fellow lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...
...critics, Dr. Longman retorted: "The present exhibition is too conservative. . . . One might reasonably conclude that the world has gone crazy. This is also the impression you get from your newspaper. The artists themselves are barometric not crazy...
...jury had picked out twelve pictures it thought Iowa should buy for the university's permanent collection. Last week Director Longman put all the money into one picture. For $5,000 he bought German exile Max Beckmann's enigmatic Tryptych-Carnival. The other 159 pictures could be bought by interested lowans. So far only a few were that interested...
England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...