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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday: Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, Sanders Theatre, 11 a.m. Orator, Edward J. Logue; Poetess, Anne Sexton...
...last Sunday in Brookline, Mass., to preview Parke-Bernet's old-car auction of 65 antique and classic models. For antique collectors, brass is gold, since 1915 is the year when most designers stopped using brass as trim. Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman Harry Johnson, was driven into the auction tent, it rated a round of applause...
...Mercer 35-J's new owner is Harry Resnick, 49, whose four-year-old collection of old autos in Ellenville, N.Y., is already up to 60 cars. To further fill out his collection, Resnick also laid down $37,500 for a sleek, maroon 1966 Duesenberg four-door sedan (body by Ghia), $8,000 for a bright blue 1924 Amilcar three-place sport model CGS 3, and $15,500 for a 1916 Biddie Victoria touring car. Bidding right along with Resnick was the biggest old-car buff of all, William Harrah, owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling...
...description delights the man who directed the display. Robert J. Braidwood, 60, is an old hand at upsetting his fellow archaeologists. By using modern aerial photographs to give an astronaut's eye view of the ancient world, and placing ancient artifacts in a contemporary setting, the field director of the University of Chicago's "Prehistoric Project" contrives to add unexpected drama to the simple relics he has found in two decades of digging in the hills of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Scorning what he calls the gravedigger school of archaeology, Braidwood says: "I've never had much...
Lithuanians in Canada by Pr. Gaida, S. Kairys, J. Kardelis, J. Puzinas, A. Rinkunas and J. Sungaila...