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...Management of the Totem Pole Ballroom in Norumbega Park, Auburn dale, announces a brand new plan of earning free passes for two people to the Ballroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Totem Pole Ballroom Offers Prize in Treasure Hunt | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

Warren Wheelock does both abstract and realistic sculpture, regularly switches from one to the other. Typical is his Lincoln series. The Intellectual Lincoln (1924) is a cross between an abstraction and a totem pole. The Meditative Lincoln (1930) is a seated abstract figure that might equally well be Rameses II. Realistic from shoes to stovepipe hat is The Tragic Lincoln (1934), his sombre Lincoln on Horseback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Self-Taught Sculptor | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Nashville, Tenn., 50 years ago, lived a family named Rhea. Father Rhea ran a line of river boats on the Mississippi, loved the stockmarket, had been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...coming weeks look very strong from the swing angle with Chick Webb now in residence at the Southland, Earl Hines due in there soon, Charley Barnet at the Raymor, various name bands in and out of Totem Pole and the Roseland State, and the Freshman Smoker's terrific array of talent Monday night...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...whole less rich than the British Museum or the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute is rich in Zapotecan sculpture, Ooxocan ware and feather-mosaics from Mexico, particularly rejoices in several treasures: 1) the tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum of Man | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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