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Many of the 130 paintings were as esoteric to the ordinary visitor as Chinese calligraphy. Among the most popular were the great Sung master Ma Yiian's fan-shaped Two Sages and an Attendant Under a Plum Tree, and a misty mountain-and-river scene in black ink and dainty colors, like dilute pastels, by the lyth century master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cathay's Treasure | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Republican Party last week demonstrated the way to force-feed a U.S. Senator with a patronage plum. The reluctant Senator: Idaho Republican Henry Dworshak. The plum: a new federal judgeship in Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Forcing Down a Plum | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Little Lunnon." To Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, the decision was "a dream come true." Scores of towns had fought over the plum; 580 were suggested and 67 were checked firsthand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Third Academy | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

After two years in Frankfort, he went back to Pulaski County and tried for the local political plum: county judge. In the election of 1929 he won handily, and moved into the office his father and grandfather had occupied before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Last week Composer Kirchner. an associate professor of music at U.S.C., added a new plum to his rich pudding: he was named a full professor at California's up-to-date Mills College, whose faculty already includes famed French Composer Darius Milhaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plum Pudding | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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