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...presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth...
...visitors to the shop is an old friend of Peter's, Ernst Seemueller, who sports a cap with "Star Beer Brewery" on it. Ernst's home has the distinction of a pine paneled bar equipped with 72 beer steins, several Italian wine jugs, a pewter edged two litre drinking horn, and plenty of schnapps. Ernst recalls the old days in Bavaria when the children used barrel staves or the long slats from the tops of egg crates for skis...
...Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five-man board of trustees, provided that he would name three of them himself. Among his candidates: old (75) George Van Horn Moseley, onetime major general in the U.S. Army, who had once trumpeted that "the finest type of Americanism can breed under [Fascist and Nazi] protection...
...closest girl's school is New Jersey College for Women, 14 miles away in New Brunswick. Since this institution is across the street from Rutgers, a condition is created analogous to a Tufts man trying to horn in on Radcliffe...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...