Word: goldsmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of trouble can be handily tucked away while heavy ingots would be conspicuous, fetches more money than bulk gold. In postwar Europe, hoarders have willingly paid 20% more than the price of bulk gold for old coins (French napoleons, British sovereigns, U.S. double eagles). Many a European goldsmith and even a few enterprising governments have taken advantage of this fact to make an easy buck. In recent months, the Austrian government has minted golden ducats dating from the reign of Franz Joseph I for the benefit of hoarders willing to pay the price...
There had never been an age without fine Irish writers, but almost to a man-Sheridan, Goldsmith, Wilde, Shaw-they had crossed the sea to pass their lives laughing prosperously at England rather than weeping insolvency for Ireland. In the 1880s, when William Butler Yeats first twanged his lyre, the world was understandably startled; it was almost like finding a Goethe in a peat croft. But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty...
Gold for the Rich. Rudier learned his delicate touch as a boy. His father was a Paris goldsmith who taught him to cast elaborate table pieces for the rich. Rudier wanted a wider medium. At 19, he set up shop for himself and began casting statues in bronze. Soon he had a small but devoted following-and an introduction to the great Auguste Rodin...
...Bertram Hall: president, Mary E. Faigle '53. work chairman, Noelle B. Blackmer '54. Brigges Hall: president, Eleanor R. Levine ,53; social chairman, Thala Poleway '54; Community Service representative, Nancy P. Winlock '55. Cabot Hall: president, Anne W. Sears '53; social chairman. Ellen U. McHugh '54; work chairmen. Mary Anne Goldsmith '55 and Barbara A. Knauff '54; Community Service representative, Dale F. Dorman...
...Columbia University fencers, the N.C.A.A. team title, over 35 colleges; at New Haven, Conn. Individual titleholders: Navy's Frank Zimolzak, saber; N.Y.U.'s Herman Wallner, epee; and C.C.N.Y.'s Harold Goldsmith, foil...