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Under the terms of the gift, the dorm will be named Louise Comstock Hall, in honor of Ada Comstock Notestein, president emerita of Radcliffe. Mrs. Notestein severed as president from 1923 until...
...Senate Democratic leadership, set aside an earlier decision to retire to the "quieter role" of private life (as a topflight Reno lawyer). But, far from improving the Democratic position, the move misfired, left the party's fragile post-McCarran unity as fractured as a quartz crystal from the Comstock mines. Three other Democratic hopefuls, all of whom had politely waited until Bible announced his "retirement" last fall to jump into the race, gave little indication of getting out again. Most certain to benefit from the fracture: able Clifton Young, 33, Nevada's only Congressman, and the unopposed Republican...
...Mother of Us All is likened by its creators to a pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and social circumstances. The variety of these against a more generalized historical background should offer a spectacle no more anachronistic than that suggested to the mind by the perusal of a volume of old photographs...
...Cigarette Problem. The poverty with which the book deals is more comic than tragic. Hero Gordon Comstock is bone-poor, not because he is genuinely down-and-out, but because a pinkish bee in his bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman...
After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...