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...opening day, 3,000 people piled in for a look at the picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fine Young Man | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Slicker. In Far Rockaway, N.Y., Arthur Brown, arrested in a chain store 'after the salesgirl he had spoken to ran screaming for help, finally succeeded in convincing police that 1) he was a porter employed by the company and 2) he had told the girl he wanted to slick up, not stick up, the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...starting cry of "Ready all. Row!" Harvard Coach Tom Bolles clamped his battered felt hat down firmly on his bald head, wrapped his black slicker around him, stood high in the middle of the coaches' launch, gripping two stop watches. Big Jim McMillin, dressed in undersized Marine green jumpers, stood nervously beside him. For nearly a mile, as the launch dropped farther & farther behind, M.I.T. and Harvard matched strokes in third and fourth places on the pace set mainly by Pennsylvania and Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poor Nephew | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Lloyd Jordan, wearing a green slicker inched into his football panta, outlined the practice procedure he intends to follow for the next two weeks and after spring vacation for three more. He introduced his assistants, four of whom are also now to Harvard football, and them everybody moved over to Briggs Cage...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Jordan Holds First Spring Practice | 3/22/1950 | See Source »

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