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...pursue his passion, Arthur Goodhart decided to continue his studies at Cambridge University. There he did so well that Cambridge later asked him to stay on as a don. By 1926 he had succeeded Sir Frederick Pollock as editor of the English Law Quarterly Review. Finally in 1930, Oxford invited him to become a professor at University College...
Hell-for-leather abstractionists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning have kept Manhattan art circles spinning all season. Their swirls, blobs and blizzards of paint, most of them too haphazard for analytical discussion, drew cheers and jeers, started scores of cocktail-party tiffs...
...interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...
Said N.Y.U. Dean Thomas C. Pollock: "We will be interested in this 'Journey for Margaret,' and we will be interested to learn whether in years to come she will enjoy equal freedom at the University of Warsaw as a teacher there...
...anyone who had seen Army's assortment of spectacular ball-carriers perform in Cambridge, it was incredible that men like Pollock, Stephenson, Pollard, Fischl, and Cain should be rendered ineffective by Navy's stout defensive line. To the Army backs, it must have been more than some what embarrassing to be stopped by a line which had yielded generous amounts of yardage to inferior offenses all season. And to the younger Blaik, Armys' quarterback, it must have been a frustrating afternoon--he was like the driver of a high powered motor car which repeatedly stalls...