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One of the Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Northern Lights | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Between times he took sun baths in a pair of bright green trunks, began reading Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. When the yacht anchored in Delaware Bay he went swimming, employing a sedate sidestroke which enabled him to keep his glasses unsplashed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Independent Man | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Thanks to F.D.R.'s own interest in history and his place in it, his papers are not stored, like most presidents', in a family attic or scattered casually in trunks here & there. The Roosevelt papers, gathered in the $350,000 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FDR: Phase II | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Deadline night, 16,884 fans filed into Forbes Field. They were not sure whether they would see a game, but they did expect to see some fun. The management was all set to field a team of the two "loyalists" (Pitcher Rip Sewell and Infielder Jimmy Brown) and a grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murphy's Mistake | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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