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...just stepped out of them. And a green suit, stiff with splattered paint and age, its trousers nothing but ribbons. And bathroom sinks, garden tools, paint brushes, and the names of hundreds of people crammed onto one giant autograph book of a canvas. Last week, when Manhattan's Whitney Museum opened a retrospective exhibition of Jim Dine, 34, it was obvious that Dine's "pocket of felt objects" had spilled many times out of his poetry into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poet of the Personal | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...HAVEN CONN., March 7-Divers Dick Eisenberg and Mike Wallace, and the freestyle relay team were the only Harvard winners this afternoon in Payne Whitney Gymnasium as Yale easily beat the Crimson for the eighth consecutive year...

Author: By (special TO The crimson), | Title: Powerful Elis Down Swimmers | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...cumulative psychological impact of the measures, however, plus the firing of Panetta, delighted segregationists. "The lamp of liberty shines brighter," triumphantly announced Mississippi's Governor John Bell Williams. Echoed Georgia's Lester Maddox: "I'm really thrilled by this." Replied the Urban League's Whitney Young: "We are in the throes of a systematic destruction of all the gains made in the 1960s." There was a sense that a new corner had been turned, that a different standard of ethics was operating, that the new trend would continue. Tallahassee's Judge G. Harrold Carswell seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: End of Reconstruction | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...loved to go in there and swear," one old Irishman lamented as he guzzled a beer at Whitney's, across the street, as women lolled around. He is old and getting older, gray on the sides of his head, pate shining like a full moon...

Author: By Gene Goltz, | Title: Landmark men's bar dries up | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

...place has the same good cold draft, and the new clientele is contented, and it is only the old guys who grumble, as they crowd in now at Harvard Gardens or Whitney's and wish to God there was one place left on earth where they could get away from the old woman and swear a little and argue one more time about the Etruscan Wars...

Author: By Gene Goltz, | Title: Landmark men's bar dries up | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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