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...Mason '40, P. Massik '38, R. V. Matthews 2G, N. Mendleson '38, J. S. Morgan '39, D. W. Morse '41, P. W. Morse '38, R. B. Murphy '39, R. C. Ninde '39, R. DuS. Nunner '39, F. E. Pamp '39, W. H. Prosser '39, E. F. Ringer '38, J. Schiller 3G, J. L. Shack '39, E. J. Spencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 75 Music Lover Students Hold Down "Super" Jobs at Boston Opera House | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

Typical example of this was Portrait (see cut) by 9-year-old Rudy Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 10,000 Fingers | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Red Menace | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Austin, '39, undertakes to show that Richard Henry Lee, revolutionary father, was the forgotten begetter of the Bill of Rights. "Government and the Farmer" by Edwin F. Ringer is a competent and compact review of the problems of American agricultural policy, though not startling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot in a picket line; Trick-Roper Gene McLaughlin, 7, of Del Rio, Tex. performing with his brother Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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