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...they were cleaned and given fluorescent lighting, which would have pleased the portly old gentleman's heart. Doubtless he would have been less pleased to see his exhibition tricked out with an array of turn-of-the-century props. Museum Director Perry Rathbone had raided Boston attics for polar bear pelts, potted palms and king-size bric-a-brac to give the show a period flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Appearances | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...varsity, loser of its last two games after winning three in a row, will meet a tall, but young Bowdoin five in its first game. Should they get by the Polar Bears, the team will face the winner of the Colby-Middlebury game the next day. Middlebury has already beaten the varsity this year, winning a tight 50-46 contest...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Crimson Basketball Squad to Join 8 Team Colby Vacation Tournament | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

Should the varsity lose to Bowdoin, they will move into the consolation round on the 29th. Starting time for the game with the Polar Bears is 7 p.m., in the Colby College field house...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Crimson Basketball Squad to Join 8 Team Colby Vacation Tournament | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

With the acquisition of the polar library of famed Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Dartmouth developed a program of Northern studies that has become a national center for Arctic research. It is also one of the few small (3,006 students) liberal-arts colleges to have a Department of Russian Civilization. But in ten years. Dickey has made a name for himself as more than an able administrator. A practical man with a scholar's tastes, he has earnestly tried to produce alumni who will be men of both thought and action. "I do want," he once said, "this generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Civilized Competence | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...course, only the beginning. Evelyn "forgave him," and ran happily down the primrose path with her "Stanny," who pushed his "Kittens" on a red velvet swing in the "play" room, hung her in costly deshabille, and had the little beauty snapped while lying odaliciously on a polar-bear rug. "He was a brilliant, kind and fascinating man," Evelyn said later. "He showed me a new world of art and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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