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Rosie's creator was probably the best-loved U.S. artist alive-lean, likable Norman Rockwell, painter of the nationally distributed Four Freedoms posters. After the Rosie episode, he got a good deal of personal mail at his home in Arlington, Vt. One of the letters felt that Michelangelo must be about as restful in his grave as a drill in a cavity. The others were pleased. Mr. Rockwell himself, quite untroubled, told questioners that the modeling was of course deliberate, that he thought it would be "fun." He added, "At first I was going to make it entirely like...
Last week, as usual, there was no news about the man who, in a sense, runs the U.S. Government. Harold Dewey Smith's 45th birthday did not make even the society column of his home-town paper, the Arlington, Va. Daily. Because it was Sunday, Mr. Smith celebrated his arrival at this milestone of middle age by sleeping late (9:30 a.m.) and playing eleven holes of dufferish golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced...
...stalwart, bearded man of military bearing stood bareheaded in Arlington cemetery. Around him stretched 15,000 graves, neatly spaced row on row. Facing the small crowd that had gathered to hear him speak, he paid soldierly tribute to the men who had died in the Civil War. The occasion was America's first Memorial Day. The speaker was General James A. Garfield, later to become President of the United States. Said he: "Let us consider. Eight years ago this was the most unwarlike nation of the earth. . . . The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their...
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...meeting of 135 Unitarian college students at the Arlington Street Church in Boston yesterday afternoon and evening, a course of action was planned concerning "The Church and the Post-War World." Present among the speakers were Ralph Barton Perry, professor of Philosophy and Chairman of American Defense, Harvard Group, and Claude M. Isbister, fellow in Economics...