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...critic who had hobnobbed with his professors as a Harvard undergraduate. Mrs. Jack lent him money to study in Europe after he graduated, an investment which paid off in opportunities to buy great paintings she could not without his aid. Through him, she bought Titian's "Rape of Europa," called by many critics the most important picture in America...
...morning of the day that I was taken into custody by the Volkspolizei of the East zone, I had worked in the Ost-Europa Institut. My pockets were well filled with notes, including references from the Russian Encyclopedia...
...Love Remembers is the story of a young Viennese musician named "Tightpants" Halka, who emigrates to the U.S. under the protection of three guardian spirits: a Knight Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow on Broadway, which is all set to be the hit of a new Ziegfeld show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved...
...Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his character. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife; they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...
...Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...