Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hymn to Soup. For months the record companies had stockpiled master platters like an Army cook turning out buckwheat cakes (TIME, Nov. 24). For a long while to come there would be enough new records around to choke any disc jockey. Estimates ran as high as three years for popular tunes. And almost all the great classical compositions are already filed away on master discs...
Died. Hans van Meegeren, 58, master forger of old masters; of a heart ailment; in Amsterdam. Painter Van Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...
...learn the Harlow system, the 1946 Harlow eleven won 7 games and lost but 2--one a 27 to 14 loss to Yale. This year's season was one of the poorest in recent Harvard history as the Harlow system failed to function for the first time since the master came to Cambridge...
...interpret Alfred North Whitehead's imponderable work and thought the CRIMSON invited the views of Paul Weiss, professor of Philosophy at Yale and editor of the "Review of Metaphysics," who worked for his master's and doctor's degrees under the tutelage of Whitehead here from 1927 to 1929. This is the second half of Professor Weiss' discussion...
...master of prewar Germany's largest privately owned coal, iron and steel empire, Friedrich Flick was "the greatest single power behind the Nazi war machine." At Nurnberg last week, haggard, white-haired Friedrich Flick, 64, became the first German businessman convicted by the U.S. war crimes tribunal. For exploiting slave labor, looting industries in occupied countries and collaborating with Himmler's SS, he got seven years...