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Those who made the statement which was in the form of a letter to the editor were: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics; Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; and George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry...
John remembers that in his student days he was "enslaved" by one of the few Americans who ever captured London: James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Actually, his work recalls another American artist whose successes in England were even greater than Whistler's: John Singer Sargent. John learned from both and came to paint personalities just as brilliantly, charmingly, and revealingly as his masters had. Delineating the mind-heavy brow of G. B. Shaw (opposite), John's brush is icicle-sharp. Gliding across the bosom of the Marchesa Casati (overleaf), it turns feather-soft. He naturally places his technique...
...Abbotts &Zizzamias. Today's students run the gamut from A (Abbott, Adams, Atwater, Atwood) to Z (Zalecki, Zapata. Zen, Zezza, Zizzamia). The 1.278 freshmen represent 526 different schools, more than half of them public high schools, and four out of every ten students get financial aid. It is quite possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson...
Also nominated for Overseers' posts are Meyer Kestnbaum '18, Chicago, President of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx; Francis W. Hatch '19, Boston, Vice President and Director of the advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, Inc.; Abbott L. Mills, Jr. '20, Washington, D.C., Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; J. Edward Lumbard '22, New York City, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Philip H. Theopold '25, Boston, member of the real estate firm of Minot, De Blois, and Maddison; and David Rockefeller '36, New York City, Vice President of the Chase...
...Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott designed the building...