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...enterprising drawing master of Northampton, England hit upon the idea while watching a local horse fair. William Shipley could see that the horse fair had a workable system: its prizes encouraged men to breed better horses, which in turn led to better fairs and back again to better breeding. With that picture in mind. Master Shipley set off for London one day in 1754. His mission: to persuade a group of influential men to apply the horse-fair technique to the encouragement of art and industry...
...Vetoed three bills,1954'$ first vetoes. The bills were to authorize commemorative half-dollars for the Louisiana Purchase sesquicentennial, the Northampton, Mass, and New York, N.Y. tercentennials. Explained the President: "Multiplicity of designs on U.S. coins would tend to create confusion among the public and to facilitate counterfeiting...
...years of collecting, the Smith College Museum of Art (at Northampton, Mass.) has kept right up with the times. Among its purchases was a $100 canvas bought direct from Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), who now ranks among the handful of masters America has produced. This week a loan show of 27 more recent paintings in Smith's collection opened at the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum. As the American samples opposite and overleaf show, the collection neatly cross-sections contemporary painting...
...weekly newspaper column, Adman-Author Bruce Barton added another item to the long list of Calvin Coolidge stories. During a visit to the ex-President in Northampton, Mass., Barton recalled, he saw Mr. Coolidge use a telephone for the first time. To check his memory, Bar- ton asked if there had been a telephone in the White House office. Answered Coolidge: "There was one in a booth in the hall I could have used, but I never did. The President shouldn't talk on the phone. You can't be sure it's private, and telephoning...
Buck, Ph.D. '35, is the fifth University alumnus to be elected to the present Smith board. Other alumni now serving on the board are President Benjamin S. Wright. Ph.D. '25 of Northampton. Morris F. La Croix '10 of Boston. Franklin E. Parker 'IS, also of Boston, and Alexander I Henderson '13 of New York...