Word: clays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the old men in TIME, Oct. 20. Now let us have some old women. Begin with me. My mother was 94 when she died. My grandfather was 94. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay* and was Minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln. I am 87 and have just published a book called From My Journal...
Both the buyers and the styles have changed since French & Co. started in 1907. "A lot of buying," says Samuels, "was tycoon competing against tycoon." When Founder Mitchell Samuels, 78, sold Joseph Widener a $400,000 tapestry, he lost Henry Clay Frick as a customer for years. In the '20s, rich collectors liked the huge, cumbersome furniture of the Renaissance. Though museums have largely taken the places of the big buyers, Renaissance pieces are out of fashion today, when even the wealthy live in smaller apartments. What sells well now are French, English and Venetian pieces of the 18th...
...This dump is an old clay pit," he says. "Used to be a brick company over on the other side. Moved up to New Hampshire. You know it's going to take twenty-five years to fill this up. That's what they tell me. Twenty-five years of dumping. I won't be around...
...CLAY Ashland...
Indeed, the only justified misgivings lie in the opposite direction. De Gaulle's Constitution, rather than achieving a perhaps impossible synthesis between the General's two assumptions, merely juxtaposes them. La Fontaine's fable of the pot of iron and the pot of clay comes to the mind: the possibilities of division and dispersion remain greater than the chances of unity and "arbitration." The two series of innovations designed to strengthen the Executive look more impressive than they...