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...could imagine Humphrey in a painting by George Caleb Bingham or see his bust in a corner of the Capital as he stepped down into the rawness of Logan Airport Thursday night, his long black hair carefully molded around his head, the black velvet collar of his black topcoat soft in the harsh lights. And as he orated to Massachusetts' industrialists, his language at once filled with references to deficit financing and the timeless rhetoric of a politician from the Northwest Territory, he seemed fully capable of standing in a crowded, dimly lit Senate chamber and delivering the reply...
...produced two generations of bad spellers and etymological ninnies. But going back to pure phonics does not answer the original objection that learning English's brain-busting disparities of spelling is dull and slow. In Washington, before a class of 29 illiterate adults and teenagers, a teacher named Caleb Gattegno demonstrated a speedy means of teaching reading by an ingenious system of color-coding sounds...
Died. Claude Moore Fuess, 78, longtime (1933-48) headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art, not a science"; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass...
...Crimean estate with its now-famed badminton court and glass-enclosed swimming pool, Nikita Khrushchev last week traveled to Marshal Tito's wonderland in Yugoslavia. From a state dinner at Belgrade's White Pal ace, Khrushchev went on an Adriatic cruise aboard Tito's yacht Caleb (Seagull), spent three days at Tito's island retreat of Brioni, then to Tito's 400-year-old castle in the Dinaric Alps, next to Tito's summer residence at Brda and, finally, to Tito's Croatian hunting lodge at Belje. To the Chinese, who have long...
...Montclair covers its field pretty well, from early primitives to such contemporaries as Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. It has a Whistler, an Eakins, a Cassatt, a Prendergast, two Homers, and twelve paintings by George Inness, who lived in Montclair most of his life. It has a Portrait of Caleb Whitefoord by Gilbert Stuart that was at one time thought to be lost; mentioned in a London auction catalogue in 1834, it was not heard of again until a former president of the museum found it in a private collection in 1945. The museum's Cromwell Dissolving the Long...