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...Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts of Washington and Lincoln from pictures, but he could not fix the ears right. On his way home from work he dropped in at the Dallas Art Institute, asked Instructor Harry Lee Gibson how ears were done. On Instructor Gibson's advice, Sculptor Townsend did his next modeling from life -a bust of his pretty wife, Marie-and submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marie in Mud | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding up his pants. One strategist discovers that the way to fix that is to fight without clothes until a war chest of replacement buttons can be accumulated. The children discover what an angry futility war is. Director Daroy discovers the French way to end such a story: a chance remark about the weather turns an inter-village love feast into a neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...offices of Secretary and Treasurer and in their own elective positions; to remove any class officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections to fill vacancies in their own number and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for the conduct of their own meetings and determine the number necessary for a quorum thereat; in all other matters concerning the class and its affairs not specifically mentioned herein, to determine what action shall be taken and to act on behalf of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nominations Made for Six Senior Offices 1939 Album Committee; Vote March 1, 2 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...culmination of a drive initiated soon after last year's Carnival by complaints against "visiting firemen," last night's action by the senior student governing board explained that it had become "necessary for the College to prevent overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Governing Body at Dartmouth Forced to Limit Carnival Outsiders | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...strong instinct of the Dartmouth student body to be cordial and welcome alumni and friends to full participation in Carnival festivities has made it necessary for the College to prevent the overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests by requiring that admission be restricted to those extended formal invitation by the fraternity through its officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Governing Body at Dartmouth Forced to Limit Carnival Outsiders | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

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