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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute was founded in 1839 by John Lowell (of The Lowells).* John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly. Ill and atrabilious, he began a round-the-world trip with all the comforts of home (items: a horse and a portrait painter). In Luxor, Egypt, he drew up his will; in Bombay, India, he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old School Tie-Up | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Once again, immeasurably greater will be the audience appreciation if the play is seen with the knowledge that it is much less a profound portrait of "The Magnificent Yankee" than, as one elderly lady was heard to exclaim ecstatically, of "Holmes, Sweet Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

...take national treasures from the country. The pictures were carted to the Ministry of Security, where Prince Christopher Radziwill, one of the few aristocrats to join the Communist-dominated government, watched them being uncrated. A Potocki and a Radziwill were face to face again when they came to the portrait of wrinkled, unlovely Isabella Potocka. Said Prince Radziwill to his leftist companions: "Look, there's Aunt Izzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Prince & the Portrait | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Lenin in Smolny, an intensely photographic portrait in which the furniture is painted with precisely the same sharp, disquieting focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting behind the Curtain | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The New Elegance | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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