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Alpha, 121 Newbury St., has an exhibit of 19th and 20th century American photographers--Ansell Adams, Edward Steichen, Bernice Abbot, Walker Evans and other biggies. Through Feb. 23. A similar exhibit called "New Exposures" is opening at the MFA Feb. 21. Lastly, if you haven't seen them yet, run over to the Carpenter Center and take a look at the VES 40 photographs. Very enjoyable, very fine work...
Sir/When T.S. Eliot [March 11] arrived on the Abbot Academy campus for an impromptu talk in 1952, the rumor of the day was that he was a "very special" friend of Miss Emily Hale, our dramatics teacher. Since rumors are practically a national pastime at most boarding schools, imagine my surprise when you carried a picture of Emily Hale as a lovely young woman and indeed a very special friend of Eliot...
...Eliot's loss was Abbot's gain. Miss Hale nurtured and expanded our love for and understanding of the theater, which I. for one, needed at that time and still enjoy today...
...Abbot struck again at 10:52, and it looked as though Colgate was going to blow Harvard right out of the rink. If the Red Raiders had been any better, Harvard would have been in real trouble...
Died. Charles Greeley Abbot, 101, astrophysicist, inventor and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1928-44; in Riverdale, Md. In 1972, a crater on the moon's dark side was named for Abbot, who spent more than 70 years studying the effects of solar radiation on terrestrial weather patterns and patented numerous devices for converting the sun's heat into energy...