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Almost everywhere that Crosby went, he was greeted with hostility that slowly turned into warmth. Everybody admitted that he meant well. After hearing his speech, the State Certified Public Accountants Association presented him with an electric lantern and a sign reading: "A modern Diogenes in search of an honest man." But this week, as the personal-property returns were beginning to come in, no one-not even the modern Diogenes-thought that many of them could be 100% honest...
...asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian era," he remarked in justification...
...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...
Ebullient Harry Bober will guide students through the art museums of the Boston area in his course, Fine Arts 14. Examining original paintings from various periods, this course is the answer to those who wish to escape the lantern slide method of Fine Arts 13. Fogg Small Room...
...cease-fire night, a full moon hung like a Halloween lantern in the sky. At 9:45 p.m., command radios crackled: all shooting from the U.N. side is to-stop...