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Enough for Two. All week long, the freshmen in both House and Senate moved uncertainly through their new surroundings. They were a diverse group, among them a machinist from Wisconsin, a mortician from New York, a spice merchant from Michigan, a labor leader from New Jersey, and a college dean of men from Iowa. Many have names that carry family echoes of one kind or another; in addition to Bobby Kennedy joining his brother Ted, they ranged from Maryland's Democratic Senator Joe Tydings, stepson of the late Millard Tydings, to California's Representative John Tunney...
Founded in 1872 on the bequest of a New Bedford merchant, John Arnold, the arboretum comprises 265 acres of land in Jamaica Plain, near the Forest Hills MBTA Station. A major center for world plant study, it contains over 6,500 living species of woody trees, shrubs and vines...
...from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before he became Franklin Roosevelt...
...have lost the American colonies, but he brought the greatest royal acquisitions from Italy to England. Through a vendor, Joseph Smith, who wheedled a post as consul to Venice, the King's additions to the royal collection increased by batches of Canaletto. Horace Walpole scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann Zoffany. The elegant composite result...
Marriage-Italian Style. Pathetically, the dying Filomena lifts her eyes to Domenico, the prosperous pastry merchant she has adored and been kept by for 20 years. "Do you love this woman?" asks an old priest. "You know about us," the merchant shrugs. Someone throws a pillow at his feet, he finds himself kneeling at her bedside, and at death's door they are joined in wedlock. Moments later, Domenico glances at his watch, tiptoes away to phone the nubile cashier he will marry when Filomena dies. Behind him suddenly the curtains are swept aside, and there stands Filomena blooming...