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...Conn, one day last year, Junk Dealer Chester Orsini, 29, stopped by to do business at the home of Barber John Cantarini, who was just moving out of his house. Orsini plunked down $10 for a heap of rags and old mattresses; then he noticed a 14-inch bronze bust of Lincoln sitting on the family trash heap. Orsini took a fancy to it, bought it for $2 and took it home to decorate his television set. But when he noticed the name stamped on the back, he showed it to a local dentist who had bought some...
...dentist took one look and offered Orsini $100 for his find. The name on the bust was Franklin Simmons, a New England sculptor who had done statues from life of such contemporary heroes as Generals Grant and Sherman and Admiral Farragut. Orsini declined the offer and started checking with museums and with Simmons' niece. He soon discovered that if the Lincoln bust had been done from life, it might be worth $15,000 or more. Orsini dug into his savings for a ticket to Chicago, where he deposited the bust in a bank, hired a lawyer and began hunting...
...some concern. Said she: "The eyes of the film fan world have switched up the feminine form . . . and I just can't compete. I've always been able to stand on my own legs, but there are lots of women with bustlines nature didn't provide. Bust building and decorating is shoving legs out of business, so I'm mighty glad I've got Big Noise [a promising young colt], a dozen horses and Harry James to fall back on if I ever need...
...meeting of the Business School's Graduating Class, and the speaker was Donald M. Wright, director of Alumni Activities. An announcement of the "Last Beer Bust" had lured some six hundred students, wives and/or dates to spacious Carey Cage, and they were all seated in wooden chairs before the podium...
Last night's entertainment was unique as all eight Houses and the Union had a party connected with Regatta. The evening was spotlighted by a Glee Club concert in the Lowell large court yard and an outdoor dance, the Kirkland Beer Bust, a Leverett Hay Ride. The Eliot Cabaret Dance and a Union Beach Party...