Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Letter Man Morris Kantor is one of the select group of artists whose pictures hang in all three big Manhattan museums: the conservative Metropolitan, the middle-minded Whitney, and the freewheeling, streamlined Museum of Modern Art. These diverse honors make Kantor a three-letter man in U.S. painting, but not necessarily an All-American; they are as much a tribute to the diversity as to the quality...
Mary Howard has been developing taste ever since she went to Miss Porter's select school at Farmington, Conn., where she learned to play the viola. After running away from Miss Porter's four times, she restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument...
...Workshop," said Weisgal, "maintains that even the best production of the fourth finest classic would meet with the same indifference as did 'King in Babylon.' We hopes as a result of the poll to be able to select a play with universal appeal and prove that we are wrong...
Graduates will also select four directors-at-large from 11 candidates for the Alumni Association, each to serve a three-year term. The selections will also be announced next June...
...following editorial is reprinted from the Smith College Associated News. It contains valuable material for Harvard undergraduates, who will select their delegates to the Chicago students conference this Thursday...