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Engaged. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne, divorced last year from his first wife, Irene Lelbach Rudnay; to Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher...
Among the books, many given by Paul J. Sachs, '00, Syndic of the University Press, is a book of letters from T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Others by Kipling, Richard Aldington, and Albrecht Durer, sixteenth century engraver, make up the exhibit...
Wood and metal cuts, and engravings, including illustrations for books, by Albrecht Durer, Martin Schongauer, and other notable German artists, are on display...
...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
...meeting, a Negro whose name is simply Andrianaly. For the benefit of reporters he played with his hands, arms and elbows a twelve-stringed instrument called the valiha. Thirteen of Germany's 250 Friends were permitted to make the trip to Philadelphia. One of them, Hans Albrecht, said to a reporter: "The future of Quakerism in the Reich is assured. Perhaps I should not say that, for if the government hears of it, they may say, 'Hello, what is this?' and we might find our status changed...