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Little Fiend. There are few musicians today who can claim such a firsthand connection with "the old days." Rubinstein was born in 1887, in the shabby industrial town of Lodz, Poland, where his father owned a small handloom factory. He was the last of seven children. "My mother did not want a seventh child," he explains, "so she decided to get rid of me before I was born. Then a marvelous thing happened. My aunt dissuaded her, and so I was permitted to be born. Think of it! It was a miracle...
...consumer goods and create jobs for India's huge army of unemployed (some 25 million, and growing in annual leaps of nearly 2,000,006) by building up cottage industries in the villages. Example: he would permit no expansion of textile mills, instead would double the output of handloom cloth...
Artist Thomas Moran. was born in Lancashire, England exactly 100 years ago this week. The son of a handloom weaver, he was brought to the U. S. at the age of seven. In Philadelphia, where his elder brother Edward, later famed as a marine painter, was already studying drawing, Thomas Moran was apprenticed to a wood engraver, very soon won a modest reputation for himself as a painter of mildly romantic landscapes. He studied in Europe, became heavily influenced by Turner's explosive sunsets, but Moran did not become a national figure until 1871, when the U. S. Geological...
...Fogg Museum yesterday opened a new exhibit, the presentation this time consisting of a group of handloom fabrics illustrating weaves...