Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his fingers is explained by the fact that he is the son of famed Sculptor Stirling Calder, grandson of another sculptor. His ability with wire and pliers is not attributable to the fact that he worked for a while with a light company. He played with wire from childhood, is a graduate mechanical engineer of Stevens Institute, once earned his living designing mechanical toys. In Paris eleven years ago Sandy Calder found him self in great demand at parties because of his circus of bent-wire figures which could gallop round a ring, jump through hoops, dance. This success...
Earnán Ó Maille, to give him his Gaelic, was a boy of 18 when the Trouble started. Old Mother Ireland and her woes meant little to him: his family were gentry and his childhood in Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army...
Items from the collection, which the staff is now cataloguing, will be shown in an exhibit of Miss Lowell's childhood work, to be placed on view today in the Poetry Room of the Widener Library, in commemoration of her birthday, February...
...main feature of the exhibit, is a group of "magazines" produced by Miss Lowell and her childhood companions at the age of ten to fourteen. One of these, entitled the "Sevenels Gazette," was presented in handwriting, and contained a story, "The Bloody Hand," together with several advertisements, such as "Wanted! A Gentleman to clean knives, whose moustaches curl up not down, and who has no objection to being called Alphius...
Also shown is a complete set of first editions of the famous "Rollo" books, published a century or so ago. These were among the earliest childhood books read by Miss Lowell and her brothers Percival and Abbott Lawrence, and her sister Elizabeth, and have been in constant possession of the Lowell family since publication...