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When Artist-Adventurer Frank McEwen took up his new job last year as director of the Rhodes National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, he knew that he would face some problems as new as his gallery. One big one was that in primitive Southern Rhodesia (pop. 2,400,000) there was hardly any art. McEwen flew back to Europe to gather a loan exhibition, only to find that "most of the people I approached on the Continent had never heard of Rhodesia, and those that had saw their cherished treasures hanging in a clearing in the jungle or round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: South of Sahara | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...meeting in the chapel. King appeared with handkerchief in hand and tearfully begged the students for understanding. "I'm a Negro just like you are," he said. "I sit in a Jim Crow car just like you do." But he refused to resign. Said Student Council President Ernest McEwen: "As far as the students are concerned, the institution is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Way to Kill a College | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Antiquarian. In Louisville, Used-Car Dealer James McEwen reported that a thief broke into his office, took the ignition keys to 14 automobiles, drove off with "the worst car on the lot-a 1942 model worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...Biology; Andrew T. Cole, Jr., Classics; Henry Stecle Commage, Jr., Latin; Howard A. Corwin, Biology; James D. Finkelstein, Chemistry; Steven C. Frautschi, Physics; Frank I. Goodman, History; Milton S. Gwirtzman, Government; David Korn, Biochemical Sciences; Nelson R. Lampert, Chemistry; Robert C. Lasch, History; David B. Lewin, Mathematics; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Germanic Languages and Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2831 to Receive Degrees at Commencement; Seven Classes Return to Harvard to Celebrate | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

Robert K. Donovan, Andover, History; David E. Pingree, Andover, Classics and Sanskrit; William Alonso, Arlington, Architectural Sciences; Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington, Germanic Languages and Literature; Alexander Welsh, Brookline, English; John G. Benedict, Cambridge, English; Robert A. G. Monks, Cohasset, History; William M. Calder, Concord, Latin; Herbert B. Olfson, Dorchester, Economics; Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Haverhill, Chemistry; John F. Wilson, Hopkinton, Government; Richard C. Hirschhorn, Longmeadow, Biology; Jaroslaw Bilinskij, Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genuine Scholars A Hidden Army, LaFarge Declares | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

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