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...than anything else, but, says Mumma, "it will pay for itself through eight home weddings for the girls." The three children of Harvard Professor Jean-Claude Martin were comfortable in a six-room house, but they are blooming in the 17-room baroque relic of the 1870s that he bought two years ago in Newton, Mass. "Each of the children has a room of his own," says Mrs. Martin, "and they can sit in corners and read...
Racing the Express. Iceboating is the fastest of all winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light...
...best-known paintings of Winslow Homer are those of the blistering Caribbean sun, of angry seas, and of the ruggedness of Maine, where he lived out the last years of his life as a virtual recluse. But in the 1870s, when he was still working and living in Manhattan, his chief inspiration came from summer visits to the countryside-upstate New York, for instance, to the tiny town of Mountainville, 60 miles up the Hudson from the city, where one of the mountains has the fierce-sounding name of Storm King. Last week a nostalgic show of the Mountainville paintings...
...current Chairman S. H. (for Sieng Heng) Ho, 62. Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals and helping clients' children choose the proper Western university from...
...Parker, a New England schoolmaster, whom Dewey himself called "the father of progressive education.'' Colonel Parker-he won the rank as a Union officer in the Civil War-was less a Dewey-style theorist than an artist with children. His talent revealed itself in his famed 1870s reform of the rote-taught schools of Quincy, Mass. Said he: "The primary concern of education is character. A school should be a model home, a complete community, an embryonic democracy...