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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lazare Saminsky emigrated to the U. S. in 1920 because he was sick of "people flying at each other's throats." In 1923 he married young Lillian Morgan, a poet proud of her descent from the Colonial Cranes. Composer Saminsky was re-excited about the redskin when he saw The Covered Wagon and read Natalie Curtis' Indian translations. He planned to write Pueblo for several years, did so last summer...
...nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent. In 1880 he went to Russia to develop the rich oil fields at Grozny. There he met and married Xenia Rogoznaia, daughter of a Cossack general...
...sporting goods stored being so firmly intrenched in the coils of the new slippery sport, we may never see the end of it. One can at least be grateful that most skiers retire themselves at the age of 70. Official action is not necessary to speed up the descent. THERSITES...
Probably the best known of the local ski rendevous is the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. This is but a fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...
...Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits on the walls of the office of President J. (for James) Frederick Talcott, the founder's son, who is now 70. His son, James Talcott Jr., is first vice president and the ninth in direct descent from the Worshipful John Talcott, one of the British-born fathers of the State of Connecticut...