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...affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited in Manhattan last November were his portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People...
...Farm Equipment Co. has moved cautiously with Raydex, testing it quietly for three years. But word of its merit spread so fast among farmers that Oliver had orders for 7,000 even before it formally announced Raydex to its dealers last week. It expects to sell 150,000 by autumn...
...homely oldster. The young man was Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 29, recently made assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The old man was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wittiest man of his day, unofficial Boston poet laureate, last surviving petal of the literary flowering of New England. By the next autumn, feeling "like my own survivor," Dr. Holmes had died quietly at 85 in his armchair. It was their only meeting. But of the next New England literary generation, Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe has come nearest, by temperament if not by talent, to carrying on the Holmes traditions...