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...Particularly admired were two Van Goghs, a Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship...
...surviving the eliminations were Northeastern, and the Coast Guard and boat, which, though not outstand will have the advantage of sailing in waters...
Shapley has never before taught an undergraduate class at Harvard. When he does the student body will get the chance to meet a man who is not alone a distinguished scientist, but an outstand-humanitarian as well. He will teach an upper level General Education course called Cosmography, the science which teaches the relation of the whole order of nature...
...Outstand in the film is the fine performance of Raimu, who, as the well-digger, is making his last screen appearance in this production. Raimu lends a fine mixture of broad humor and human dignity to the performance of his role. He is equally effective when pleading with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human...
Today Ordnance's big job is production -in which it has had the yeoman help of U.S. business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...