Word: goldsmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before long, the society was attacking such problems as sheep diseases, the making of rosin, the growing of potatoes. Meanwhile, its list of contributors began to read like an 18th century Who's Who-Sam Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith...
Other officers chosen were; vice-president, Richard Goldsmith '55 of Adams; political activities chairman, Christopher Nielbuhr '56 of Lowell; Harvard activities chairman, Charles Edson '56 of Dunster; secretary, Richard Comegys '57 of Strauss; public relations chairman, Orlan L. Isaly '56 of Lowell; membership chairman, Robert Colman '56 of Adams; member at large for film series, Michael Jorrin '54 of Adams; and members at large, Phillippe Villers Allerand '55 of Adams, Joseph Cooper '55 of Dunster, and Joseph Frank '56 of Lowell...
Married. Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, Bolivian tin millionheiress; and James Michael Goldsmith, 20, son of a wealthy London hotelman; in Kelso, Scotland (see PEOPLE...
...Richard Goldsmith '55 was named vice-president, Joseph Cooper '55 secretary, and Humphrey Fisher '55 treasurer. Other officers chosen include: Phillipe Villers '55, Political Action Chairman; Christopher Niebuhr '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman; Charles Edson '56, Membership Chairman; Anthony Beilenson '54, Public Relations Director; Lew Smith '54, Michael Jorrin '54, Gordon Graham '55, Peter Waldstein '55, members at large...
...eggs are the work of an intense, spade-bearded jeweler named Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Starting out in his father's small shop in St. Petersburg as a young apprentice, Fabergé became court jeweler to Alexander III and Nicholas II, and the most sought after goldsmith of his time. Russia's Easter eggs are his proudest creation. Fabergé turned out his first as a surprise for Alexander III's Czarina. At a glance, it seemed to be a plain chicken egg of opaque white enamel. But inside, the Czarina found a glittering yolk...