Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show were 134 oils, watercolors, sculptures and prints by artists of the "Old Northwest Territory" (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin). Among the prizewinners: a windy, sunny street by veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
Died. Gerald ("Gerry") McGeer, 59, bellicose Senator from British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver, of a heart ailment; in Vancouver. For two years McGeer had been trumpeting warnings of War III, exhorting the U.S. and Canada to arm from the tip of Alaska to California because "the Northwest will become the Belgium of the future...
William L. Putnam '45 and David Michael, Jr. '48, returned to Tatla Lake in the northwest Canadian province to relate how Shiverick, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, had been caught with three companions in a slide on July 22 in the so-called Scimitar glacier, some 150 miles northwest of Vancouver...
...name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
Narrowing Gap. Northwest Airlines, Inc. inaugurated the first regular service from New York to Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila via the "Great Circle" route-i.e., over the Aleutians and northwest Pacific. The new route will be flown thrice a week, will shorten trans-Pacific flying time by as much as 72 hours. New York-to-Tokyo fare...