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...fought Mexico, died just before it entered World War I. Neither was popular in his lifetime, though each had tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view in Manhattan last week served to reassert their stature...
...starry event takes place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...Holcombe's scheme helps Government while hurting other departments, by diverting funds from them. Moreover, if given the two posts he would probably select men of his own age group, "stars" who have already earned academic fame. These he could lure from other universities by the offer of a Harvard professorship...
From the school records of the candidates, and from the personal interviews last night, Marvin and Taylor will select the Red Book board of seven today. The names of the board will be announced in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
Promotion of Jim Grunig, 200-pounder, to the third short guard post on the Red Jersey squad was announced yesterday afternoon, which brings the total number of the select group to 34. The fact that Penn is bringing a bargeload of behemoths to the Stadium may have had something to do with Harlow's move in adding more avoirdupois to the Varsity...