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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis P. Magoun '50, Shiverick's roommate, was also a member of the group, and his mother, wife of Francis P. Magoun '16, professor of Comparative Literature, told reporters yesterday that Putnam, who scaled Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer, was leading the expedition along with Beckey...
...phony emotionalism is unnecessary as the plot is a natural. Don DeFore and Gale Storm provide the young love ingredient. But the real weight of the picture rests with Moore and secondarily with Charlie Ruggles, the unwitting host. Ruggles, under the impression that his daughter is an unwed mother, unloads a stream of double entendres that provide the picture's only belly-laughs; and Moore, advising the world's second richest man on his love life, or strolling along majestically and merrily without a cent to his name, is simultaneously humorous, whimsical, and pathetic...
...Shakers were also intensely practical. Mother Ann insisted that her converts be "hand-minded." "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God," she said. The furniture they made, first for themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay...
...close, the Shakers made few converts. The journals kept by each "family" began to record more & more cases of individuals (and couples) who "wormed out" or "fleshed off" to taste the pleasures of the world. Sister Sadie Neale and the handful of others who are left know that Mother Ann's valiant experiment is over. But they are confident that some time, somewhere, it will rise again, as Sister Sadie says, "in some other form." Meanwhile, they are living out the rest of their lives as Mother Ann told them to do: "As though you had 1,000 years...
...fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs and an anarchist in his behavior; unable to curb any of his physical cravings, yet capable of the stupendous discipline needed to complete the Life; romantic about love...