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Entrants were required to submit a postcard with their name and address but Miss Marel, wanting to be distinctive, used blue stationary with a gold Radcliffe shield on it. "They said they were just going to draw at random," she said, they weren't. I wanted to make sure they got an intellectual...
...Rembrandt's Titus, sold last year to California Collector Norton Simon. At Sotheby's in London last week, a Flemish painting of St. George spitting the dragon brought $616,000. Since the oil, attributed to Hubert van Eyck, is the size of a postcard (5| in. by 41 in.), it cost a record $26,552 per sq. in. At the new record's rate, a canvas a yard square would cost $34,411,000, more than 15 times the highest price ever recorded for a painting. A Rembrandt etching, called the "Hundred Guilder" print for the healthy...
...above 30,000 a month, some thousands will soon be called to serve who might previously have postponed or entirely escaped military service. Across the U.S., young men are once more watching their local mailboxes anxiously for the nation's most unpopular piece of unsolicited mail, that elongated postcard with the blank space after "class" filled...
...sportswriters picked Michigan State to finish no better than fourth in the conference, and M.S.U.'s own publicity people handed out releases suggesting that the Spartans would "have difficulty bettering last year's 4-5 record." Duffy's answer was to send a personal postcard to every member of his team, outlining a four-week program of good food and exercise that they were to complete before reporting for practice...
...artists were mainly tourists. They had succumbed to what Henry James diagnosed as "the great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene. One who did was Frederick Childe Hassam, a robust Bostonian...