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...year-old Georgetown boy named Vernon Vaughan found a frayed magenta 1¢ British Guiana stamp on an old family letter. More as a favor to the youngster than anything else, a collector named Neil R. McKinnon bought it for six shillings. Ten years later McKinnon sold his entire collection to Thomas Ridpath of Liverpool for $600. By that time the 1¢ British Guiana stamp had become known and Count Phillipe la Renotiere von Ferrari, biggest stamp collector in Europe, bought it from Ridpath for $750. In 1922 the Ferrari collection was sold in Paris. The late Arthur M. Hind...
...Cable '09 and Dean B. S. Hurlburt '87 will address the banquet this evening in the Union which will celebrate the thirty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the CRIMSON. Barrett Wendell '77 will speak on the Magenta...
...even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled peplums and billowy bustles. ¶ Fripperies to complete the rich elegance of "Edwardian and earlier" include cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone...
...cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition...
...sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into the hall where the sister was waiting, and turning to her suddenly, shouted, "Who turned off the gas?" Taken off her guard, the girl finally admitted removing...