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...only show, in 1948, was a sellout. C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney was her first customer, with a $350 purchase, and since then she has found it hard to supply the de. mand. The Paul Mellons have 14 of her pictures, including an $8,000 series of wall paintings, which show the four seasons in full bloom at their Upperville, Va. farm. The Mellons are especially taken by Painter Hewes's gift for catching the individual personalities of their favorite cats, dogs, horses and cows...
Remembering the class of 1927's freshman academic difficulties, the faculty came up with a new policy, "no probation after November hours." Relived, the sophomores helped make the Dartmouth game a sellout, but four fumbles gave the Big Green a 6 to 0 win. Despite this setback, football seemed to be uppermost in the undergraduate mind--so much so that Dean Greenough '98 complained. "Mother prefers to have her son a quarterback on the football team rather than have him a scholar...
...decided to model himself on Rembrandt, Goya, Chardin and U.S. Painter Thomas Eakins ("one of the greatest portraitists of all time"): "It was a matter of looking and looking and then working and working." The small public that buys pictures approved the results: his Manhattan show was a near sellout...
...This week St. Bonaventure met Duquesne, No. 5 (14-0), in a game which involved the only two major unbeaten teams in the nation. The game was played in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Gardens (a privately owned arena not connected with the school) and was a 5,600 sellout. Duquesne had to turn back 25,000 ticket requests; St. Bonaventure claimed it could have sold 5,000 tickets around Olean...
Iowa, No. 9, which last week upset third-ranked Illinois, 73-68, to put both teams in a tie (5-1 apiece) in Big Ten competition. Iowa Center Chuck Darling (6 ft. 8 in.) paced the winners with 26 points. Iowa's fieldhouse (capacity: 15,500) is a sellout for every conference game...