Word: manns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director William M. Mann hopes that they will thrive, but he is not too confident. Sea otters have never been exhibited before, partly because of their rarity and partly because the odd conditions of their natural habitat are hard to simulate. They live in the great beds of kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins...
George Gregory Puente, Economics; Lawrence D. Mann, San Miguel, Social Relations; Donald B. Keesing, Stanford, History...
...American primitives in your May 10 issue take me back 60 years to my friendship with Jack Mann, an artist who, I felt, was a genius. On exhibition in a village store was Jack's painting of a game bird, a hunting-trophy still life with every barred feather in place, as realistic and photographic as anything modern processes have shown since. Yet Jack could whip up a portrait in an hour or two for anyone who cared to pose in his paint shop amid pails of whitewash and hand-mixed house paints. At one period he traveled over...
...JACK MANN, PAINTER...
Sweeping the doubles for the Crimson were Rauh and Haegler, Bossart and Spencer, Gravem and Harris, Stone and Frank Goodman, and Mann and Canfield...