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What made some people unhappy about his new show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painted Stones | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

"Visitors 21, Harvard 11," the way the scoreboard looked after last week's match, has been staring Butch Jordan's wrestlers in the face all week while they were boning up for today's contest with Dartmouth. It starts at 2 p.m. on the Blockhouse mats.

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Engage Dartmouth Here | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

One playwright who is celebrated for his wit confesses that he feels an odd compulsion to be constantly entertaining in Porter's company: "Suddenly, when he's had enough, you find him staring at you with a kind of loathing and, before you know it, he's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Harry Truman had said: "I bear no malice toward anyone," and apparently he doesn't. He has listened patiently, as is his way, grinning quietly and staring at the floor, while politicians flocked in to assure him that they had been for him all along. To labor leaders and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fighter in a Fighting Year | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

The paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brazil's Best | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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