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...Sutherland is best known for such tortured canvases as his Thorn Trees (opposite), which combines the cruelty and immediacy of Picasso's World War II paintings with a peculiarly British and romantic feeling for landscape. It looks like what Wordsworth might have written if Wordsworth had swallowed a lemon...
...olive branch, which someone thrust into his hand, and an unscheduled, indignant lecture. Said Aaref el Aaref, Arab historian and former mayor of Jerusalem's Old City: "Our . . . friendship has been imperiled by the Truman Administration, which not only created Israel but has been keeping it as a thorn in our side." Replied Dulles: "At home we Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green...
...Medical School Faculty working on this project include Dr. David M. Hume '40, Instructor in Surgery, Dr. Cutting B. Favour, Associate in Medicine, Dr. John M. Weller, Instructor in Medicine, Dr. John P. Merrill, Associate in Medicine, Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, Lecturer in Medicine, and Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine...
Leland S. McKittrick, Medical School professor, will discuss "Surgery," while "Clinical Research" will be the topic of the talk given by George W. Thorn, Medical School professor...
...stood tethered while Oberjohann sat in a giant acacia tree, to wait for the mother's attack and watch the proceedings. At 2 a.m., "the night turned into a roaring, crashing hell." The acacia tree was torn from its roots, and Oberjohann was hurled 15 feet into some thorn bushes. In a few minutes, he says, the mother smashed 14 acacias and some 50 other trees, trampling them almost level with the ground...