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James Russell Lowell to England and Hawthorne as consul in Liverpool. The Robber Barons, who were the modern Medici, imported European treasures by the boatload, but Henry Adams found America "mortgaged to the railways." Henry James fled to Europe, and in 1913 Ezra Pound gloomily wrote of America's artists: "O helpless few in my country, 0 remnant enslaved...
...would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post...
Sponsored by the Radcliffe Graduate Chapter, Esther Herlitz, consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, deputy director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., spoke to a packed audience in the Alumnae Lecture Room at Radcliffe...
Esther Herlitz, Consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, Deputy Director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., will speak Sunday in a panel discussion of "The Middle East, Today and Tomorrow," sponsored by the Radcliffe Alumnae Association...
...photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...