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...have been able to stave off actual starvation in Hokkaido. Even though the U.S. Air Force last week flew in three planeloads of food. Hokkaido's farmers face both hunger and bankruptcy. "We've sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing we've left to sell is our daughter." It was not a joke. Many a farm family, in desperate need, has returned to the old but recently outlawed custom of selling off a daughter to some enterprising brothel keeper in exchange for ready cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hunger in the North | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...writers and editors in twelve TIME Inc. bureaus at home and abroad who worked directly on the story and color layout, nine were former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps. The roster: Edward Cerf, Louis Banks, Champ Clark. Cranston Jones, Alvin Josephy, Tom Lambert, Curtis Prendergast, Robert Ajemian and Clay Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...history. The exquisite American impressionist school, which followed in the light footsteps of the French, remains undervalued. Yet museum directors-sensitive to a growing popular interest in American painting-have been snapping up such characteristic examples as Childe Hassam's Church at Old Lyme, Conn, and Maurice Prendergast's Sunset and Sea Fog (opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The American Impressionists | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...ARCY PRENDERGAST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Fight. Another Democrat whose prospects take on a different shape is New York's Governor Averell Harriman. Although he has publicly insisted that he is for Stevenson, the fact that Harriman is a candidate is not in doubt. Early last week New York State Chairman Michael H. Prendergast told newsmen that Harriman, if he is "convinced the convention wants him," will seek the nomination even though it means a floor fight with Stevenson. Added Prendergast: Stevenson "isn't going to stampede anybody." Two nights later, to underline the Harriman push, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio lavishly entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Changed Structure | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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