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...ignore a good prop, especially in the presence of photographers, Mathieu once donned helmet and greaves to paint his The Battle of Bonvines (TIME, March 7, 1955). For Tokyo, what else, but a kimono? Arriving at the base ment of the Shirokiya department store, where a crowd of Japanese were already straining at the wire barrier, Mathieu stripped, donned a loose, flowing blue-and-white yukata. girded himself with a black waist sash, topped off with a red hachimaki wound round his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the End, Nothing | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...week. Four years ago, in the country's first general election, Communism-spouting Cheddi B. Jagan, a suave, U.S.-educated East Indian dentist (Northwestern University, '43), startled the complacent British by sweeping into office. The followers of his People's Progressive Party shouted, "We guv'ment!", and Jagan boasted that they would shoot their "oppressors." Six months later, 700 British troops and three warships deposed Chief Minister Jagan, suspended the colony's constitution. Next week, under a cautiously revised constitution, the colony's 200,000 voters will again go to the polls. The overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH GUIANA: Jagan's Comeback | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...vastly increased scholarship and loan program--a program that amounts to about $1,850,000 annually. This $400,000 expenditure means less money for faculty salaries and other needed projects. To relieve this situation, the Program for Harvard College hopes to raise $4 million for increased financial aid endow ment. Even with these extra funds, however, the scholarship and loan program will put a severe financial burden on the University, and with a 20 percent increase in enrollment, the burden would be that much heavier...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Harvard Expansion | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...DISOBEDIENT SON (274 pp.)-François Clément-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Cacique | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...drawn by Author Clément, a Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Cacique | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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