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...thoughtfully read a book entitled After the War-What? by American Author Preston Slosson. Crew members were ordered by U.S. guards to keep their arms folded as they came into port. Kapitänleutnant Johann Fehler, the U-boat's skipper, protested indignantly to Coast Guard Lieut. Charles Winslow that "your men treated us like gangsters." Growled Winslow: "That's what...
Speaking for the affirmative will be State Senator Edward M. Rowe '27, former debating coach, and Robert Brisbane 2G; they will be opposed by Jarvis Hunt '27, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and H. LeBaron Sampson '01. The moderator will be Representative Henry D. Winslow...
...Civil War, largest section of the show, included less heroic action, simpler scenes of soldier life. There were Civil War paintings by William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer. Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty showed Negro slaves galloping to sanctuary in the Union lines. Of A Ride, Painter Johnson wrote: "A veritable incident . . . seen by myself at Centreville, on the morning of McClellan's advance." Most of the Civil War pictures bore out a remark once made by Ulysses S. Grant to a contemporary war artist...
...Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded by an electric signal system wired to a specially installed power plant in the house. They were also guarded by 13 picked Metropolitan staff members, all family men doomed...
...other prints (13 in all). Soon the line of purchasers at the Museum turned from a timid trickle into a demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...