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...still lifes of fog and mountains and trees and water and whatever other of God's wonders were available. Darkroom wonders and technical manipulations, generally leading to a sterile effect, also cluttered the walls. There were of course, some excellent examples of this type--Dean Arthur D. Trottenbergs' Groton store and Arno Szegvari's soft, low-contrast woods scene--but really, one must say that this kind of photography usually fails to show anything significant in the photographer's selection of scene and lighting. I can't find much that is exciting or worth-while about a picture...
...like the combat paratrooper he was in World War II. "I eat, sleep and breathe the idea of trying to develop a literate public," says Kirchanski. He dislikes "snob" private schools as much as he does progressive public ones. "I'm not trying to form a precious little Groton or Eton. This is for kids, rich and poor, who want to learn. And what do we teach that's so damned unusual? Only the classics-reading, writing and arithmetic, the tools a human being needs to survive. We tell them not to worry about 'adjusting...
...should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino Oksanen. a hawk-nosed Helsinki detective, was back as a heavy favorite. Slim U.S. hopes were pinned to familiar Veteran John J. Kelley, 30, a Groton, Conn., schoolteacher who won in 1957 but has a habit of running a strong second...
...opening-scene kiss with Gable. The role was just another chapter in the multi-chaptered life of Marietta Peabody Fitzgerald Tree, 43, a decorative, deserving Democrat who last week became the U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. To fellow Boston Brahmins, Marietta is the granddaughter of Groton School Founder Endicott Peabody, the daughter of Harvard Overseer and retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Peabody, the ex-wife of Attorney Desmond Fitzgerald. To Britons, she is now the wife of onetime Tory M.P. Ronald Tree, a multimillionaire investment banker in the land of his grandfather, the original Marshall Field...
...GROTON, Conn., Jan. 17--Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover stood on the bridge of the submarine Nautilus as she first sailed under nuclear power six years...