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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine members of the Committee to Save Harvard Education are: William N. Dale '40, John W. Goddard '41, Alan Gottlieb '41, Cranston E. Jones '40, Laurence I. Radway '40, Robert B. Ridder '41, Irwin Ross '40, John S. Stillman '40, and D. Willson Webb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW TENURE APPEAL GAINS IN MOMENTUM | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Traps | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...members are: E. Alston Blackwell; John L. Donnell; Robert J. Glaser; R. Stuart Hoyt; Cranston E. Jones; Christian M. Laurlitzen, 2nd.; John H. Loeb; Lloyd Mills, Jr.; Phill G. Neal; Joseph C. Pesden, Jr.; Alfred W. Putnam; Brooks Ryder; Templeton Smith; Donald M. Thurber; D. Willson Webb; Roger L. Werner; and William P. Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Society Takes in '40 Men at Annual Dinner | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

...report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, by Academy Founder Charles Willson Peale; had hacked at the 22 other paintings and finally hauled off at a marble group of Columbus discovering America, chipping it severely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slasher | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...scoring throughout was vigorous, obvious, abounding in theatrical crescendos which brought him tremendous applause. Willson's program notes made a sure-fire appeal to civic pride. The conclusion was described as "a call of defiance to the elements that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the Golden City of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Comeback | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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