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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HENRY KOERNER, 44, is one of the nation's best living painters,*but he has long worked in the shadows of two masters, first Giotto and then Cézanne. His latest work still shows their influence, yet displays a new and surer synthesis that is unmistakably Koerner'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

"I'll Do It If You Will." Dana helps those who help themselves, and he loves luring a whole community into backing its local college. (If he judges that a town can raise two-thirds of the money, he shrewdly limits himself to one-third.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶ The River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

An angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

It was still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professors' Vote | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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