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Brooks House will continue its social service work, Ellison said. May Freshmen indicated at Registration that they were interested in these activities, which include running athletics and handiwork classes for underprivileged children...
Gold & Jewelry. Even more dazzling than the paintings are the gold and jewelry of Goring's collection. There are stacks of tableware made out of solid gold. There are two boxes in one of the rooms, both solid gold and crusted with fine gold handiwork set with precious stones. The center piece of one is an enormous aquamarine set in gold filigree on an ivory panel. There are gold candlesticks by the dozen...
...months ago, Whitey McNair, in tribute to the infantry, said: "[Their] guts and brains . . . put the finishing touches-the copper-riveted handiwork-on the craftsmanship of the air forces, the artillery, and the tank corps." Last week it looked as though Whitey McNair was off to do some copper-riveting himself. Best guess: he would command an American army group somewhere in Europe...
Said "Whitey" McNair: "It takes the man with the rifle, the bayonet and the grenade, dragging his weary feet after him ... to get in there with guts and brains. He has to put the finishing touches, the copper-riveted handiwork, on the craftsmanship of the air force, the artillery and the tank corps...
Johnny and Grover long ago learned to regard "Magnin" as a highly profitable name. Their mentor was their mother, peddler Isaac Magnin's wife Mary Ann, who founded the business with her own handiwork (children's and bridal clothes) in 1876, and took an intense matriarchal interest in it until she died at 95 last December...