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...acre plantation below Atlanta for a closeup of this week's cover subject, he discovered that his visit was a bit untimely. It was the tail end of the dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired and missed one shot at a dove, gave up and contented himself with watching his sharpshooting...
...Barbizon School: 19th century French Landscapists Daubigny, Theodore Rousseau and Millet, long in eclipse because Duveen frowned upon them, are back in favor, have increased as much as ten times in value in the last four years...
...freshmen who have not been interviewed in the three Houses of their choice should take advantage of their final opportunity today, Millet Perkins, Secretary of the Masters' Council, advised yesterday...
European "Art of the Romantic Period," from 1750 to 1850, promises to satisfy artists, romantics, and Modern European history concentrators looking for an interesting related course, Assistant Professor James W. Fowle, of Fine Arts 13 fame, is the lecturer, Delacroix, Millet, and other French painters the subject. Fine Arts 174 meets in Fogg Small Lecture Room...
...prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from...