Word: manson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harian Philip Manson '46 has been appointed assistant Dean of the College for the academic year 1949-1950, Dean Bender announced yesterday...
...ever. Sir Newman Flower's revised edition of his scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...
...Varsity basketball game, a see-saw engagement from the start almost to the close, Captain Midge Manson of the Medford team sank the winning point on a Radcliffe foul, two minutes from the finish...
...front row, a bidder merely lifted his finger to raise the price to 1,500 guineas. Near him another deliberate finger went up, and the bid rose to 2,000. Thus calmly and decorously went the biggest art auction of the year, held in London by Christie, Manson & Woods-the world-famed "Christie...
Utrillo's Revenge. Tate planned his treat as a show place for living painters. But there were a few reaches into the past by one director, who could not stand the way some living artists were working. Cherubic James Bolivar Manson, who was director from 1930 to 1938, once inspected two lumpish sculptures by Hans Arp and Brancusi at the request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac...