Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannery Row, but Slum Alley, universal home of the urban poor. Its children are grimy urchins, and the world scuffs them underfoot like dirty snow. But a Catford Street child may still skip to a dream of beauty between the slabs of concrete. This is the story of Lovejoy Mason, a ten-year-old asphalt sparrow, and her dream. A co-selection of the Book- of-the-Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over the printed page. Far from the Indian scenes...
...Jack lived in the height of society on the water side of Beacon Street which was "right where you ought to be"--in the words of William Mason '10, now assistant director of the Museum. For many years, she had gathered works of art from all over the world. Clever deals enable her to buy great masterpieces at bargain rates. A Vermeer for $6000 was a veritable robbery, but even when prices rose money was no obstacle for things she really wanted. Competition with the great museums of the world meant nothing to her. She devoted her entire fortune...
Died. George A. Ball, 92, financier, philanthropist, last of five brothers, who built one of the great U.S. fortunes on the Mason jar and the purchase in 1935 of controlling stock in the Van Sweringen railroad empire (23,000 miles, including the Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri Pacific) for "about the price of two first-class locomotives," which he sold for $6,375,000 in 1937 to a group headed by the New York Central's Robert Young; in Muncie...
...Ancient and Modern History; Harvey Brooks, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Sciences; J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science; Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe and Professor of History; Harry Levin, Assistant Professor of Education; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Professor of Botany; Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Director of General Education; and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loek Chemistry Professor...
...Sandpile. Sculptor Nivola's method is simple enough to inspire a whole school of do-it-yourself followers. Trained during his boyhood as a mason and stucco decorator before he won a scholarship at Milan's Art Institute, Nivola was struck one day by the fact that his sand doodles could be cast simply by reversing the patterns and filling them with plaster or concrete. When the first casts came up covered with fine-grained sand Nivola was delighted to discover that they combined the texture of sand with the permanence of stone...