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...People. He could also boast a blurb for his painting from an expert who knew what it was. Said Jerry Morris, curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery: "This accidental doodle can be regarded as a work of art worthy of serious criticism on two levels. The artists cleaning their brushes may either consciously or unconsciously contribute to this form and selection by the placing of their brush strokes. The man who recognized the quality of the picture in rescuing it from the wastepaper basket was to a certain extent functioning as an artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Wastebasket | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas carved his own epitaph: "He knew too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Members of the Freshman Debating Society take on outside competition--for the first time today, meeting Andover on the subject of draft deferment for college students. Stephen G. Brush and Ralph I. Petersberger, Harvard affirmatives, speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Debate Andover | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Americans at the Bonspiel | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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