Word: americana
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...guests of the glittery Americana Hotel in suburban Miami sat down for a lunch of roast beef, string beans sautée with mushrooms, fondant of potatoes, salad, petits-fours and coffee. Neither butter nor cream was on the table; everything is always strictly kosher at the serious, elaborate dinners that open the annual fund-raising campaigns of the nation's most successful charity, the United Jewish Appeal...
Compulsory reading for the scholar, this third volume of The Papers is still delightful stuff for the general reader who prefers to have his Americana unbrainwashed by the biographer. He may even reflect that had Franklin got around to inventing the telephone, as well he might have, most of the fascinating odd bits would have disappeared without trace into the instrument...
...Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...
...biography by two former Rosenbach employees, and few readers will mind that the book is too long by half or that its style sometimes flutters giddily. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach was born in 1876, and sniffed book dust from childhood; his uncle Moses Polock was an early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While working for his Ph.D.-later he sported his doctorate and his pince-nez to much the same...
...week handed out an odd-looking new product to sell door to door. A green, windowed, sheet-metal box slightly larger than a typewriter and weighing 7½Ibs., the new product is a teaching machine. Grolier salesmen will sell it along with The Book of Knowledge and the Americana as a help to home learning, but the ultimate stakes are much higher. Grolier President Edward J. McCabe Jr. hopes it will be the first big step toward revolutionizing the $300 million-a-year textbook industry. Says he: "The first educational breakthrough was the film strip. Then came educational...