Word: willson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half, coach Floyd Willson's five battled to keep Princeton from running up the score beyond its present 29-point margin. The effort was generally successful until the substitutes from both benches came on with four minutes...
...Most Modest Venus. The earliest work is by James Peale, the brother of the more famous Charles Willson Peale...
...Charles Willson Peale had West in mind when he sent his two portraits to England via General Reed: he hoped that West would recommend a first-rate engraver for his portraits. For some reason that lies buried in the past, General Reed's in-laws, a family named De Berdt, consigned them to their attic. One evening last spring, an art dealer got to talking to a member of the De Berdt family who casually mentioned that there were two early American paintings somewhere in his house. They were identified as Peale's, and the news was flashed...
...winter of 1783, an ailing retired American general named Joseph Reed, a former aide to General Washington, set sail for England to pay a visit to the family of his late wife. In his luggage he carried two fine portraits done by his old friend Charles Willson Peale. Both had renown at home and might well have drawn favorable notice in Britain. Instead, they disappeared from art history...
...Brown's society tumbles at home and her triumphs among the titled abroad is not only made the crude Maggie and Jiggs stuff it may often have been but is given an unvarying funny-paper treatment. The show, too, has an altogether loose-leaf structure, while the Meredith Willson score is not up to The Music Man's and has nothing as infectious as Seventy-Six Trombones. But it gives a kind of joyous blare to the evening; along the way there is some nice dancing, rowdy in Leadville, chic in Monte Carlo; there are some funny remarks...