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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...