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...Godkin Lecture fund was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, founder of "The Nation" and editor of the New York Evening Post, to provide yearly lectures on "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers have included Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont; Harold E. Stassen, and last year, Chester W. Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India...
...centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay; Miró would...
...1920s he joined Galveston's W. L. Moody III, whose father was one of the world's richest men, in creating a mammoth oil, gas and sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth...
...Marion L. Anderson, executive assistant of the Harvard Fund, died Thursday in Boston after a brief illness. She had been assistant to the Fund since 1925, and represented for many alumni their only contact with the organization...
Last year's lectures were devoted to Woodrow Wilson's career as a political and world leader. Past lecturers include Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, John Foster Dulles, Henry L. Stimson, Thomas E. Dewey, and George F. Kennan...