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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking at the inauguration of Dr. Ralph A. Van Meter as president of the University of Massachusetts, president Conant complimented the university on its two-year agricultural college in Stockbridge--a thirty year old venture that pioneered the development of shorter courses in specialized fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Junior Colleges Suggested by Conant | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Mary Manning Howe will direct, and Martha Nichols '50 is designing the sets for the show. Nicholas van Slyck 1G, director of the Harvard Chamber Music Orchestra, will compose and conduct the music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Restoration Play Planned by Idler | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

During his stay in Antarctica on the "Operation High Jump," Foster shot over 20,000 feet for the movie. The show's cast consists for the 4,000 men from the U.S. Navy who sailed with Byrd. Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and Van Heflin speak the commentary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veritas Member Filmed Fourth of 'The Secret Land' | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Madame Bovary, starring Claudette Colbert, Van Heflin and Claude Rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Program Preview, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Vigeland preferred nudes, and even his statue of Ludwig van Beethoven leading an orchestra (done in 1906) was naked as a winter oak. The nudes of those early years were realistically proportioned, often graceful. But Vigeland's conception of the human figure changed over the decades, and his work came more & more to reflect his new (and increasingly stereotyped) ideal-thick-bodied women of action and bull-necked men. Among the samples in Frogner Park: a male tossing a female over his shoulders; a male carrying off a female while she, with one leg over his shoulder and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Zoo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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