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Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives...
In 1909, at 31, Quezon arrived in Washington as Resident Commissioner to the U.S. from the Filipino people. In 1942, as President of the Commonwealth, he arrived there again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had...
The Truman Administration went gunning last week for game that is all but extinct: a brace of rugged individualists. Specimen No. 1 was 69-year-old Leon Clausen, a big-boned man with a face that betrays his Danish descent. Clausen beat his way from a Wisconsin farm to the...
To the 25 members of the Maniwaki* (pop. about 2,000) Rotary Club, the weekly luncheons, speeches and songs were a special delight. Most Maniwakians, sons of rugged, cheery, gregarious lumberjacks, liked nothing better than these get-togethers.
¶ Greatest disappointment: Robert E. Sherwood's The Rugged Path.