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Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor Vanderlyn forever. When William Page tried to exhibit his 1862 Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed...
Only two of the independent candidates for the Council, Daniel J. Hayes and Manuel Rogers, appear at this time to be contenders. Rogers ran unsuccessfully in the last election, while Hayes, outspokenly anti-Harvard, has already created a stir by claiming that many students will try to vote illegally in the city election...
...entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
...stocked with refreshments-for Susskind is a genial host who wants everybody to be relaxed. Sometimes, indeed, the guests have become too relaxed. There was the memorable evening last winter when the London Observer's Patrick O'Donovan dissolved in an Irish mist; he caused such a stir with his groans, hiccups and toasts that Susskind had him removed from view during a hasty message from the sponsor. Then there was the night when good old reliable Brendan Behan cut loose with a rendition of the largely unquotable song, Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...picked up strength from circulation promotions and from some of the best talent in the business-much of it lured from the World's newsroom-but Hearst had larger excitement in mind. Eying the Spanish colony of Cuba, where revolt had been smoldering for years, Hearst decided to stir...