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...made much of a secret of his intellectual and esthetic bents. His Senate office is dominated by chinoiserie, and his house on N Street in Georgetown is a treasure house of the Oriental art he started collecting more than 30 years ago. Bored with the long train ride from Chestnut Hill to his office in Philadelphia, Scott, then a lawyer, started teaching himself Japanese grammar. As often happens with students of that subtle tongue, Scott found that a taste for Japanese art quickly followed. "Mrs. Scott was slightly appalled at first at all the junk I was bringing home...
...concert's most attractive feature was a program devoted to music of the twentieth century--and there wasn't a chestnut within hearing. Some of the works were by composers whose names are quite unfamiliar (Maurice Ohana and Alexandre Hrisanide); others were of more familiar authorship but were themselves infrequently performed works...
...miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken a leaf from Matsudaira's book...
Harvard plays three games this week. Tuesday they travel to Chestnut Hill to take on the B.C. Eagles. Next Friday and Saturday, they resume League action against Cornell and Pennsylvania at Splinter Stadium...
Disposable Products. Ministers also use some surprising visual aids to get across a point in contemporary terms. One Sunday, the Rev. Lon Chestnut, Methodist chaplain at Emory University, projected illustrations from Playboy onto the chapel wall. His theme was that Christians should not treat other human beings in the Playboy manner, as disposable consumer products. On another Sunday, the congregation of Cincinnati's St. Timothy's Episcopal Church was startled when one parishioner got up to leave in the middle of the sermon by the Rev. John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because...