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Most of the material presented in the 40 works on display in the Union is based on subjects acquired during the students' service in the armed forces. Other exhibits portray local scenes while some are distinctly surrealistic in chaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students to Show Wares in Latest College Art Exhibition | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

...government's concern today was to portray the consequences of the walkout, the judge plainly indicated, that would have a bearing on the severity of any sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

Although the results of a poll distributed on a "take-one-if-you-want-one" basis probably cannot be labelled as scientifically exact, the findings of the CRIMSON College Affairs Poll, distributed in the Dining Halls last Wednesday noon, do, to a certain extent, portray in large scale the feelings of the student body on a number of the issues that have arisen during the fall term thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Prod | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...burghers, with their starched ruffs, plump cheeks and fierce little beards, annoyed Rembrandt. They paid through the nose for his fine likenesses. Rembrandt had other ambitions than painting portraits: he was obsessed with a desire to portray light. When a Captain Banning Cocq went to him with a 1,600-florin (about $650) group portrait commission, Rembrandt pocketed the fee, and set about painting light, not likenesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Night Watch | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Until One Man's Family is crossed with the Lone Ranger, U.S. radio will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Man & His Sin | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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