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Word: sketches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chorus of Approval | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

When Artist Guy Rowe ("Giro") is not working on a cover painting for TIME -such as this week's portrait of Burma's Premier U Nu- he likes to take a brushman's holiday and sketch faces elsewhere. One of his favorite hangouts is in the upper reaches of mid-Manhattan- a nondescript restaurant which is a popular early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...What kind of confidence," asked London's conservative Daily Sketch, "can Britain have in such naive tourists who wander happily into the spider's web and expect to tie a bow around his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lotus Eaters | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Cuevas' show was a sellout at $20 to $50 a sketch. One Manhattan dealer sold several, sight unseen, by long-distance telephone. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took one look at the show's catalogue and reserved two of the most impressive asylum studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Vision of Life | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Shortly after noon the formal dedication will take place in the foyer of the new laboratory. William M. Hickey will speak for the Harvard Engineering Society, of which he is president, and Gordon M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Master of Dunster House, will sketch McKay's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Dedicates McKay Lab Today In Noon Program | 6/16/1954 | See Source »

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