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...esthetic matters. Collector Bache lent a willing ear to Lord Duveen, he handled the business end of his collection with the same care that he watched ticker tapes. In 1937, by an arrangement with New York State, he formed the Jules Bache Foundation. This enabled him to live on the third floor of his Manhattan Museum, enjoy his pictures, pay no taxes on the property. (In 1936, so many Bache holdings were outside the U.S. that Art-Lover Bache was unable to pay any Federal income tax at all that year.) But before he died, Jules Bache changed his mind...
...suppose some won't like this I don't care if they do or not this is my opinion . . . that 45 cents for some of them drinks is terrible. . . . Some of this stuff they serve you now has drove more guys to the water wagon than any Lent in history." Roundy Coughlin is Wisconsin's most widely read home-grown philosopher. This week he started his 21st year on the State Journal of Madison with: "Here is a chance for the Journal to throw a little party for me. This is just a little reminder that...
...Russians lent a playing field next to the docks. Bases were marked with gunny sacks. The four teams, one from each ship, played hard-ball rules, but games lasted only seven innings: by then the ball was too lopsided and the bat was usually split...
...French and German. For 25 years he sang not only in St. George's but also in the choir of Manhattan's best known synagogue, Temple Emanu-El. But his first loyalty has always been to St. George's, and he is a devout Episcopalian. This Lent he hopes to give his 50th rendition of Fauré's The Palms...
...language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice, and volunteers supplied thousands of samples of early U.S. usages...