Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Square, New York City, looks like a run-down office building. For Painter Reginald Marsh it is an ivory tower, with its feet planted firmly in the Manhattan market place. Marsh, a retiring 50-year-old chunk of a man, spends whole days at his studio window on the top floor, surveys the square below through a telescope. The caved-in bums, bundled up news vendors and bumptious, pneumatic-looking shopgirls that catch his eye are swiftly translated into notebook sketches and filed away in a steel cabinet...
...also announced that John B. Marsh '08, of New York City, will serve as national chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund, the organization which will try to raise the $2,500,000 during the early early part...
...recent Harvard graduates have joined the school faculty this fall. Paul E. Marsh '48 has been named to a post in the history department, while Leighton A. Price '48 will teach science...
...Reginald Marsh had looked at the people, not the architecture. The bald, bull-necked Yale graduate who says "Well-bred people are no fun to paint," made his beat the Bowery, the burlesque shows, and raucous Coney Island, painted it with a Hogarthian incisiveness and strength...
Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...