Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither side will be quite devoid of footballers on April 21, as several of last year's varsity are planning to turn to rugby this spring. Jerry Marsh, '54 quarterback and veteran rugger, will lead a law school contingent that may include several ex-Elis, and All-Ivy tackle Orville Tice will be back for his second rugby season...
With this novel of romance and intrigue, the second son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir, more widely known as John (The 39 Steps') Buchan, takes his own first fictional step. Buchan fils proves that like Buchan pere he can turn a marsh-mallow-weight tale until it is neatly toasted. The setting is India; the set is buna sahib; the time is mainly the '30s; the season is boredom. But at least two men and one woman think there is more to India than what can be seen through the bottom of a gin-sling glass...
There were at least 200 athletes in the Union last night--some of them gray-haired crew men from the years of the First War, and others such recent football figures as John Culver, Bob Cochran, and Jerry Marsh. It was the first annual dinner of the Harvard Varsity Club, preceded by cocktails at six in the Club House next door...
Millions of Nudes. Always essentially an illustrator, Marsh followed in the Ash Can tradition pioneered by John Sloan and Robert Henri. Like them he was possessed by the lure of the big city: "It offers itself. New York is a new city. You can't touch London or Paris that...
...public forms fascinated Marsh. For sardonic effect he sometimes reproduced in his paintings Manhattan's steady flow of tabloid headlines (DOES THE SEX URGE EXPLAIN JUDGE CRATER'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE?). But above the litter and trash of the streets, Marsh saw in the full-blown women the galvanizing, poetic image of the city. He painted them as triumphant nudes, only incidentally clothed, proud symbols with painted, empty faces...