Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel...
...Henri Matisse to bother to answer the attack that British Royal Academy President Sir Alfred Munnings had made on his work (TIME, May 9). But last week Matisse did. Sitting up in bed in his suburban apartment at Nice to talk to a TIME correspondent, the 79-year-old master gently contradicted Horse-Painter Munnings' views on modern art in general...
Wyman Holmes, chairman of the New England Committee for UNESCO, was master of ceremonies, and Paul L. Wright '49, College representative on the Committee acted as host for the UN Council...
David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, will be married Thursday, May 26, to Mrs. Rosamund T. Bennet Sturgis of Weston. The ceremony will take place in St. Mary's Church, Episcopal, in Newton Lower Falls...
Charles Weidman, American concert dancer, will conduct a "master class" at 4 p.m. today in the Radcliffe gymnasium. The instruction will be open to anyone, male or female, who is interested...