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...vice-president and director of Corning Glass Works and president and director of Steuben Glass. Inc., has had an interest in the proper care of rare books ever since he started collecting them in his undergraduate days. His collection of manuscripts of John Keats is the best extant, while his general collection has few rivals...
...less than three first editions of medicine's great classic-De Motu Cordis, by William Harvey (1578-1657), discoverer of the circulation of the blood, have passed through Mr. Schuman's hands. About 17 first editions of this work are extant. The third copy, worth several thousand dollars, Mr. Schuman found in Los Angeles. Its owner, a confirmed invalid, was lying in bed drinking whiskey, flanked by a bar and a vault of rare book...
...raising of this plan because to date every other college in the region has O. C's. And no visible obstacle except lack of inactive stands in the way. For skiing and hiking three sections especially could be exploited at a minimum cost, the O. C. using the already extant Youth Hostels, available for a dollar per head; around Plymouth, N. H., Stowe, Vt., and Putney School, southern Vermont. Here both the beginner, who longs for the graceful swells of a golf course, and the experienced-but-not-ski-team-material-individual, could find plenty of amusement and exercise. During...
...behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with the aid of a glow worm (see cut), while birds jeered from a tree...
...anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken-the wine is spilled-both eagles fly to the rescue. Shamefully she stands knee deep in classic water-her body eaten and pitted with holes. The preventative balloon trails sandbags. The body stands dissected by extant medieval concepts." Even without this explanation, the medallion still said enough about prostitution...