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...with a new family. The famed Lewis Carroll Wonderland manuscript, whose sale at public auction in 1928 set a new manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November...
Shapley joined in the appeal with Har- old C. Urey, noted University of Chicago chemist and a leader in the Manhattan Project, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman from California, and Norman Corwin, radio writer whose "Set Your Clock at U-235" has forcefully dramatized the menace of atomic destruction. His address, liberally gingered with the Shapley wit, drew a tremendous ovation...
Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight...
...brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep...
...saddler, two watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads...