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...Meredith Willson' s Musical Revue, substituting for Fibber McGee & Molly over NBC's red network from 9:30 to 10 on Tuesdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summer Shows | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...those who preferred admirals to ships there were 20-odd polite portraits by such U. S. classics as Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale, depicting bigwigs of early U. S. naval days. Crustiest entry: a full-length portrait by 18th-Century, German-born Genre Painter Daniel Nicolas Chodowieki of John Paul Jones standing in a misty landscape with a defiant expression and one day's growth of beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Naval Art | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...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 »

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