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...crime it is, therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell...
Nine of the 13 signed a leter reading. "We, the undersigned, who support Franklin D. Roosevelt for President, will vote for John W. Haigis for Governor." Those signing were John B. Crane, Instructor in Economics, Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin American History: Arthur N. Holcombe '08, professor of Government; Earl G. Latham '30, Instructor in Government; Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History; Raiph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Earl N. Stilson '31, Instructor in Government; and Payson S. Wild, Jr., assistant professor of Government...
...would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue rich Miss Lizzie Bliss, richer Mrs. John D. Rockefeller into becoming collectors and patrons of modern art, made him a hard working organizer of the historic Armory Show of 1913 that brought the French moderns to the attention of the U. S. public...
...Cambridge is as unthinkable without the aggressive and autocratic figure of the great Shakespeare scholar as it would be without Harvard Hall, in which for so many years he has lectured. The university has known more palatable teachers. Bliss Perry won the hearts of generations of students of literature by the charm and urbanity of his readings. But Professor Kittredge has been at once a good, a scourge and an inspriation. For nearly a half century he has prodded good students into better work and opened their minds. He has blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame...
Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pikes Peak, looked forward this week to a cultural renaissance. Due to arrive were such Eastern artistic notables as Painter Walt Kuhn, Manhattan Dealer Marie Sterner, Collectors A. Conger Goodyear, Thomas Cochran and Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest...