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MANY a favorite of yesteryear drops quietly from sight. More exciting are the rare instances of painters whom time mellows and improves. Such a one was Philadelphia Painter Arthur Carles, whose reputation for a while seemed to gutter and go out. Now, with a chance to review his lifetime's production at an exhibition of paintings at Manhattan's Graham galleries, critics have been shocked into recognizing Carles as one of the unsung ancestors of today's abstract painting...
...boom confined to inboard power boats. The big schooners of yesteryear are down to a handful, but they have been replaced many times over by 35-and 45-ft. yawls and ketches, better suited to an age dominated by the income tax and the high cost of other people's labor. Harbors from Maine to California swarm with new thousands of prams, skiffs and small sailing craft. Lumped under the heading of non-powered boats, such craft increased from...
...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...
...failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could be changed to include only students in Group II. But this would vindicate a chance remark of Professor Owen, who commented in a History 142 lecture that the "gentleman's C" of yesteryear is now a "gentleman's B minus." If more students each year make the Dean's List because they are better students, it means that Harvard fails to raise its standards--what it expects of these students--accordingly...
Like the automakers, the motorboat makers are shifting away from yesteryear's jukebox styling. The 1959 models have toned-down colors, trimmed-down fins, less chrome. There are also fewer extra-cost gadgets. Said President Sherwood Egbert of the Outboard Motor Manufacturers' Association: "Instead of bringing out a huge array of new accessories, we have settled down to making our product more reliable, cheaper to operate...