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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concerning the recent episode, the editor also reported that 'the financial pressure (from alumni) which President Baxter opposes is more powerful than might seem at first glance. We are in the midst of a fund drive for $2,500,000 and having a hard time getting...
Winston Churchill sent a little bread-&-butter present, delivered by hand by daughter Sarah, to Bernard Baruch, his host on his recent U.S. trip (TIME, April 4): a 24-by-36-inch Winston Churchill watercolor landscape...
...want to paint a tree," gruff Sir Alfred had snorted at a recent R.A. banquet, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree!" Matisse's La Forêt (in London's Tate Gallery) did not look a bit like trees to Sir Alfred. Argued Matisse, why should it? Such "material truth," he said, might as well be left to photography. The truth modern painters like himself are after is something else again; it "comes out of the mind of the artist . . . the sentiment of an artist moved by the spectacle of nature...
...Yale team, considered the best in recent Eli history jumped to a quick lead of three goals in the first ten minutes of the game. But the Crimson fought back with some of its best play of the season to tie up the game...
...might be appropriate to mention here a few of Yale's recent times and distances that the Crimson can only gape at. In the Heps, Fuchs put the shot 55 feet, 3/4 inches, Wade ran the mile in 4:18.7, Appel pole vaulted 13 feet, 5 inches, and the mile relay team finished...