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...exact, and perhaps as a result he never really became reconciled to it. Whatever the reason, as in the case of other commodities of a rank or distasteful appearance like Limburger cheese, pickled snails, or Italian grappa, his music has a strong and peculiar attraction for a certain select few who accept nothing else as a substitute...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz jr., | Title: Jazz | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...groups will be led by a graduate student, limited to a membership of 20, and will operate independently. Each group will choose its own meeting time and select specific sub-topics to be discussed and read during the term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Features Study Groups in Spring Schedule | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three-Letter Man | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Ohio State he saw Harold Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perfectionist | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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