Word: manly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waterville, Me., a tall, friendly man of 65 sat back and mused: "I think I was born to teach, not to be a college president." J. (for Julius) Seelye Bixler should have known better. Last week, as his successor prepared to take over solid little Colby College, retiring President Bixler's 17-year record looked hard to beat...
...Hill. Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville. Beginning in 1933, square-jawed President Franklin W. Johnson hunted the money ceaselessly. One man sent $20,000 just because he pitied Colby as he passed by on the train. But World War II canceled construction and dashed the dream. When Bixler arrived, Mayflower Hill had only three completed buildings and five shells. Old Colby (enrollment: 651) still squatted on the wrong side of the tracks...
...Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take one's breath away, and add new dimensions to the ordinary conception of what is beautiful...
...remained for the upsurge of postwar prosperity (320 new manufacturing companies in the last decade) and population boom (2,500-3,000 new inhabitants each month) to bring the bloom of art to the desert. Sparking the drive for a new museum were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance Man George Bright, a recovered TB victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel...
Having at last closed the culture gap, Director Hinkhouse is already planning a new $750,000 museum wing. "Man needs a good diet for the mind," Hinkhouse points out. "The art museum helps complete the menu...