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...Terriers, led by forwards George Gaudreault and Paul Clem, a relatively unknown sophomore, outran, outjumped and outshot their opponents most of the evening. With Clem (17 points) looping in short set shots and Gaudreault (15 points) getting the fast-break layups, B.U. manufactured a 10 to 4 lead before Bill Brady registered the first Harvard field goal at the five-minute mark. Rockwell free throws had accounted for the Varsity points...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Fast BU Five Spoils Crimson Boston Garden Debut, 52-36 | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...publication will also include, according to its pre-collapse policy, the work of writers of established reputation, thus linking the known with the unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Wake' Wakes Up After 18 Months To Feature Student Literary Talent | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: And Now to Make Masterpieces | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...though the new ideas had been violently avowed, and the hallmark of their advocates was a fanaticism unknown since the first flush of Islam, wherever the fanatics were brought to trial, almost without exception they failed to defend their beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Never before," wrote Author West, "have people known the voice of one they have never seen as well as if he had been a husband or a brother or a close friend; and if they had foreseen such a miracle, they would not have imagined the familiar unknown would speak to them only to prophesy their death and ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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