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Fortnight ago the selectmen of Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit...
...Delaware by Emanuel Leutze and The Spirit of '76 by Archibald M. Willard. Some may be aware that the first hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art but few indeed know that the original of The Spirit of '76 is the particular pride of Marblehead, Mass, where it adorns that smug Boston suburb's ancient Abbott Hall...
...zealous town selectmen have rigidly refused all requests to photograph it. Once 20 years ago, when this prohibition was briefly lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company's advertising campaign...
...Though in his long lifetime he produced many such historical illustrations, none attracted the national attention of The Spirit of '76, his most important effort. It was the sensation of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. None admired it more than that descendant of a long line of Marbleheaders, General John Henry Devereux of Civil War fame, who bought and presented it to Marblehead. His interest in the picture sprang in no small measure from the fact that his small son, the late Harry Kelsey...
...Bowdoin undergraduate prize of $75 for the best translation of a specified passage in Greek or Latin was won by Edward Lewis Bassett '36 of Marblehead for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greek." Honorable mention went to John Joseph Ney '35 of Dorchester...