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...renting agent who has been dealing with Harvard housing for several years thought the University would have difficulty renting more than half the apartments in the complex. "If any single group of people in Boston can be part of bohemia and find romantic places to live all over the city, it's married Harvard students," he said. "Some people around the Square were getting pretty high rents for what were essentially holes, and it will bring their prices down. But [Dean] Sert spent a lot of money on getting outside architectural effects--my guess is that living inside would...
...live with art nouveau came to be like living in a world of peacock tails; it was not so much art as an empty, if dazzling, embellishment. In the end, Mucha himself turned away from it and spent the last years of his life in the Castle Zbirov in Bohemia, working on a series of academic pictures portraying the history of his people...
...youngsters who are light enough (maximum: about 114 Ibs.) or hungry enough to perform the mean chores (walking "hots,"' mucking out stalls) expected of budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year, and for Hirsch Jacobs' Affectionately, top candidate for Filly of the Year. Mexican American Herberto Hinojosa...
...city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn foals, and the Russians are sure to rustle them unless General Patton rapidly develops some horse sense...
...Tribune articles with historical evidence of the insatiable Russian appetite for power. "More than eight centuries ago," wrote Correspondent Marx, "Sviataslaff, the yet Pagan Grand Duke of Russia, declared in an assembly of his Boyards [noblemen] that 'not only Bulgaria, but the Greek Empire in Europe, together with Bohemia and Hungary, ought to undergo the rule of Russia.' " Marx also quoted Derzhavin, poet laureate to Russian Empress Catherine II (1729-96): "Of what use are allies to thee, O Russian? Stride forth, and thine is the whole world...