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...Charles Willson Peale first pictured him as a strapping colonel of Virginia militia, utterly self-confident from hard years of surveying Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First President, matured with the cares of Government, his military dash gone with his teeth. To William Williams, who painted him in full Masonic regalia for the Alexandria, Va. lodge, he was a ruddy-nosed old aristocrat full of honors and years, the owner...
Born at Danville, Kentucky on June 9, 1862, he attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he received his degree in 1885. During his college career he was a member of the Athenaeum and of the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, in which he has always maintained an active interest...
...back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...
...Hartford, Conn., last week for the premiere of the opera he and Gertrude Stein wrote together in Paris. It is called Four Saints in Three Acts although it has some 30 saints, a prelude and four acts. It was given in the new Avery Memorial wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and sponsored by "The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music." This New England organization is headed by A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., a rich young Hartforder who directs the Hartford Museum and knew Virgil Thomson at Harvard when that young composer wore kid gloves to scull on the Charles...
...pany roused his interest in science, gave him the idea of putting himself through University College. London. He went to the U. S., which he found ''very agreeable,'' left because life there lacked "mental excitement." After the War, he became science editor of the London Athenaeum. His hobbies are music and mathematics; his heroes Beethoven (on whom he has written a book), Isaac Newton (of whom he hopes to write...