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...Howard Athenaeum--Reopening. This will be a gala affair, girls, with all the town's best in their Sunday finery...
Ashore, the Einsteins at once went to their customary living quarters in Caltech's Athenaeum at Pasadena. That night he stayed up late chatting abstrusely. Two days later, in a comfortable chair in the Mount Wilson Observatory library, he listened intently to a bright young man of relativity propound a retrovision of the universe...
...posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission...
...copies. John Trumbull and Edward Savage, eleven each; Houdon, seven statues; Gilbert Stuart, 16 paintings of the Vaughan type with head turned left, about four or five each of the Lansdowne and Monro-Lenox type with head and eyes turned right and more than 70 variations of the famed Athenaeum Head with face turned right and eyes straight ahead...
...Washington Bicentennials. The Post Office Department has gone to some pains to obtain obscure likenesses. Of the issue, which ranges from 2¢ to 10¢, there are four Charles Wilson Peales, two John Trumbulls, a reproduction of the Houdon bust, the famed Gilbert Stuart ($1 bill) Athenaeum portrait, the New York Historical Society's anonymous portrait, a crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. F. Saint-Memin, a portrait by William Williams...