Mount the American genre artist at Whitney Museum
William Sidney Mount lived 1807 to 1868 and spent his later years on rural Long Island. He rejected European patrons and avoided New York City, traveling in a horse drawn studio to sketch country scenes that became his paintings. The Whitney exhibit will likely seem a corn filled portrait of a plainspoken artist.
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Eel Spearing at Setauket Highlights Mount Exhibition
Mount remains an easily underrated artist whose Whitney show reveals uneven yet remarkable growth. The Or on loan works include Eel Spearing at Setauket and The Banjo Player, with portraits and drawings showing surprising draftsman skill. exhibition closes April 15 before traveling to San Francisco.
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Speaker Named For Accountants In Cedar Rapids
Dr. Philip Hubbard dean of academic affairs at the University of Iowa will speak at the Cedar Rapids chapter of the National Assn of Accountants Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Roosevelt hotel on factors influencing students career choices in business. He owns Hubbard Instrument Co. in Iowa City and coauthored Advance Mechanics of Fluids. A social hour at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:45 precede the meeting.
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Farewell Given for Liner Batory After 33 Years of Service
In Tilbury England AP 150 former passengers bid farewell to the 14300 ton liner Batory retiring from major routes after 33 years. Once a wartime link in Allied shipping and later a carrier of troops the ship became a symbol of East West tensions after transporting American Communist Gerhardt Eisler to Britain in 1949. Detectives later boarded the vessel as the United States threatened to confiscate it.
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Two Bihar Brothers Sentenced for Nose Cutting
In New Delhi two Bihar brothers received 14 year prison terms for severing a villager’s nose. They claimed retaliation after the victim cut their father’s nose 18 years earlier, a motive they testified to in court.
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Could Be Jailed For Wolf Whistle
Lima city council approves decree making the piropo a punishable offense if the targeted woman complains. A piropo ranges from verbal compliment to a friendly pat on the seat and can lead to jail depending on the lady involved.
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Lima
Sober Up Pill Could Let Drunk Drivers Take The Wheel
Dr Wolfram Kuuehnau and three Basel researchers pursue a pill to spur liver enzymes that rapidly reduce alcohol in blood. Not yet perfected or fully tested the drug is described as a moral initiative to let partygoers drive soon after drinking and possibly pass blood tests.
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