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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even his opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Statue Smasher | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter, a Blue Devil, coming out of nowhere, blocked a Carolina punt. The ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

In the East, Ivy League rooters crowed lustily for Cornell last week. Against Dartmouth, Carl Snavely's boys showed that their early-season victory over Ohio State, mightiest of the mighty Big Ten, was no flash in the pan. Playing as no Cornell team has played since the famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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