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...work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades and cavernous interiors were patterns for many an American municipal building, railway station, temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vaults & Ruins | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...running squirrel-pieces to the Indians, and the U.S. government couldn't find out who was doing it. So the governor, as a last resort, busted Calamity Jane Russell out of jail and offered her a pardon if she caught the outlaws. Jane married a traveling dentist, Painless Peter Potter, for a blind and tipped off the crooks that he was the Federal. The two race through an ambush, two dozen gunfights, a chase, and an Indian war dance before they finally escape from the crafty redmen and foil the outlaws. It's a frantic plot, and it's played...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Paleface | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets in a jam, Calamity stands patiently behind him and plugs his enemies. In time, this leads to a scene that Hope plays with all the zest of a bear in a honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Francis F. Chen '50, William F. G. Dawson '49, Herrick A. Drake '50, Hans H. Estin '49, William H. Gilbert '50, Don C. Harshman '51, Roy V. Heisler '47, James P. Johnson '51, Donald B. Louria '49, Richmond P. Miller, Jr. '49, Stuart H. Mudd '50, Philip C. Potter, Jr. '48 (captain), Thomas B. Ragle '49, Richard M. Saul '50, Charles F. Schoch '49 (manager), Michael J. Scully '48, Francis A. Seamans '49, Jonathan M. Spivak '50, Richard A. Wallace '50, Charles Weiss '51, Albert E. Wolf '51. Major H in minor colors--Robert Carswell '49, Philip C. Potter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 Athletes Get Major or Minor Awards in Fall Sports | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...three men, playing as forwards, were outstanding in making Bruce Munre's first season successful. Potter, last year's high scorer, was the team's key attack man because of his passing, while Estin took credit this year for scoring the most goals. Sophomore Charlie Weiss's outstanding dribbling put him on this year's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-NE Soccer Team Places 3 Varsity Men | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

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