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Died. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, 86, translator into English of Thomas Mann's works, a sprightly Pennsylvanian who wrote poetry and plays (most notably Abdication, a genteel spoof of Edward VIII) but devoted her serious labors to the German literary giant, beginning in 1924 with Buddenbrooks and thereafter translating most of Mann's books, including the monumental, 2,071-page Joseph and His Brothers; after a long illness; in Princeton...
Allentown gets its name from a celebrated chief justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who in 1761 sent off a letter to his agents in Leghorn directing that ?100 be advanced to a young Pennsylvanian who was passing through on his way to study in Rome. "From all accounts," wrote William Allen, "he is like to turn out a very extraordinary person in the painting way, and it is a pity such a genius should be warped for want of a little cash." The faith of Justice Allen-the New World's first important art patron-was justified...
Died. Franz Josef Kline, 51, a leader in Manhattan's stronghold of abstract expressionism, a rugged, academically adept Pennsylvanian who, after early attempts at barroom-scene realism ($5 apiece), found his forte in 1950 with the lunging black-and-white calligraphy (as much as $14,000 apiece) that won him permanent wall space in the U.S.'s great museums and some derision ("Chinese laundry tickets"), who explained his aggressive oils as "not the things f see but the feelings they arouse in me"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...withholding university funds, the government continues to express of the present executive of the but when the new take office on Thursday, financial will be resumed. "If we can on advertising funds," a Pennsylvanian staff member told the CRIMSON, publish until March...
...Wednesday evening of paper, student government, and officials succeeded in restoring of the Pennsylvanian...