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Last week the New Society of Artists opened its seventh exhibition in Manhattan. The place of honor was given to George W. Bellows' unfamiliar War-piece, "The Massacre"-civilian figures huddled in a blur of terror before a firing squad. Stirling Calder, friend of Bellows, exhibited a half-length portrait of the painter in bronze...
...course farthest from the referee's launch, and was jockeying into position when the crews were sent away. Princeton and Yale had put in about five strokes before the Crimson blades caught the water, but Merrill kept his crew spurting till he caught Princeton, which had taken a half-length lead on Yale at the start...
...Winner. Black Gold, so-called Pride of the West, won by a scant half-length. The three horses who were given the other prize-money places were also Western horses. Thus the East found itself totally eclipsed. The time of the mile and a quarter race (2 min. 5 1/5 sec.) was 1 4/5 seconds slower than the record made in 1914 by Old Rosebud. The track was fast; the day, fair...
...chief event in the Invitation Regatta was the half-length victory of Noble and Greenough's four-oared crew over Choate, which won the school race at New Haven over Culyer Academy recently. Choate, however, did not tally second yesterday, for the Choate cox fouled the Rindge Tech crew, which was accorded second honors. The time over the three-quarters mile course was four minutes flat...
...hitherto unrecognized painting by Jan Vermeer of Delft (1632-1675), who is acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...