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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor and present City Councillor John D. Lynch announced yesterday that he will form a "Vigilante Committee" in an attempt to drive all Communists out of Cambridge. The search will extend to Harvard and Radcliffe...
Last week, after nearly a month of search, the police received a phone call from Dried Meat. "This is a warning," he said. "I'm coming." Nervous authorities thought he might come shooting. Instead, a pale figure in checkered black & white sport coat, he walked up to a suburban policeman, meekly surrendered himself...
...instructor, Chapin gave up teaching to try what few artists west of New York have succeeded in achieving: supporting his wife and daughters (aged 14 and 16) by his painting. Now he spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder to spatter the kibitzers. On cold winter jaunts he protects his hands...
Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...
...prize which Texas thinks is being stolen? According to some geologists, it is 13 billion barrels of petroleum in that part of the continental shelf which curves from the Mississippi Delta to the mouth of the Rio Grande. In search of this oil, some 35 companies have paid Texas and Louisiana more than $52 million in leases and royalties since 1945 and have drilled 131 offshore wells. But many have been dry and the big strike has not yet been made. Last week only five wells were operating off the coast of Texas, and production was so poor that oilmen...