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...must congratulate TIME, Oct. 14, on "A Masterpiece Come Home." It is refreshing to read such articles about the finer things of life; and the triptych of the famed Cracow Altar by Wit Stwosz, or Veit Stoss if you prefer, is certainly one of the finest. The beautiful illustration that accompanied the article clearly proves this. However the article refers to the sculptor as a German while Stoss was definitely a Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...wobbled wide. With only four minutes left, Rice Hero Hill kicked out of bounds on the Aggie 1-yd. line. Now the Owls were too far out of range to be caught, even as the Crow flew. The game ended in a great upset victory for the Owls, to wit: Rice 7, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Owls & the Crow | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...tradition, later writers such as Russia's Sholom Aleichem created a whole literature in which pain and happiness, the worldly and the supernatural come together under a canopy of wry humor. Two books, written by exiles from Eastern Europe, have much of Aleichem's rewarding piety and wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Songs in Exile | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...newspapers, whose feature editors sometimes treat the dog story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dog Story | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Last night's Kirkland House production of The Alchemist scored a tremendous comical sucess. Three centuries have not dimmed the bawdy wit of Ben Jonson, and the whole production delighted a near-capacity audience in the Junior Common Room...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Alchemist | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

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