Word: whistlerisms
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...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...
...whistler" is back again plaguing Radcliffe's telephone lines with two new additions to his repertoire of melodies and recordings, Spike Jones' laughing Record and "Fair Harvard...
...short period last year, the whistler took up yodeling instead of his usual acts, but received what was probably the surprise of his life when Nancy Burns '50 yodeled right back at him from the other end of the line. He has not been known to yodel since...
Inhabitants of Barnard Hall have become so well acquainted with the whistler that they have affectionately dubbed him "Uncle Bob." Girls sitting at the dormitory bell desks usually hang up immediately if they know about the mysterious caller, but this has in no way affected the frequency of the calls. Some of the dorms hear from him on the average once...
Various theories of who the enigma is and why he calls have been advanced by Annex students. The majority agree that he is only one person, and the same person for the last four years. This would tend to exclude the idea that the whistler is a University undergraduate. Other girls are convinced that the bothersome caller is simply a local "crackpot...