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From Charles Eliot Norton's art lectures at Harvard, she learned of John Ruskin- his exultation of the natural and living architecture. Thus today, her grand home in the Fenway overflows with spring flowers every year- orange nasturtiums cascade from the upper stories into the sky-lighted courtyard splashed with daffodils, orchids, and lillies...
...professor like Charles Eliot Norton was a good friend to have, not only for Isabella Stewart Gardner but for Bernard Berenson. It was due to Norton's suggestion that Belle Gardner started collecting rare books and manuscripts instead of gowns and jewels, and it was Norton who got a group of wealthy Bostonians to finance a traveling fellowship for Berenson when he lost the Parker Fellowship in 1887 to another Harvard student...
...live" comedies. Nor is it lost on Chuck Jones, perhaps the foremost observer of the Disney fun factory. Scenarist-Director Jones, illustrator of many a Bugs Bunny and creator of Roadrunner, is the animating force behind The Phantom Tollbooth, his first full-length feature. It is based on Norton Juster's ten-year-old classic juvenile novel...
...smaller number of big companies have either moved to New York or announced their intention to do so, including Elgin Industries, U.M.C. Inc., Atlantic Richfield and Norton Simon Inc. The traffic in companies, though not in overall employment, is mostly outbound. One reason is New York's living costs, which are 9% higher than Chicago's, 18% more than Denver's and 26% steeper than Houston's. But says Leonard Yaseen, chairman of Fantus & Co., a corporate site-seeking adviser, "I don't think economics has much to do with it. The intangibles have...
LOUIS XI, THE UNIVERSAL SPIDER by Paul Murray Kendall. 464 pages. Norton...