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...University Library outgrew its 150-year old quarters and President Josiah Quincy determined to build a new library. After failing to get any money from the State Legislature, he received a large gift from Christopher Gore "to build an enduring monument to preserve the memory of Massachusetts' former Governor and Senator, Christopher Gore." Allegedly designed after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the enduring monument, Harvard's new library, was built in a style euphemistically labeled by contemporaries as "Fourteenth Century Gothic...
Soapbox Y. Salon. It is startling to recall that Wilde, whose works read like period pieces, and Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity...
...guidance of the divine. Frank Buchman, whose "Oxford Group" later became Moral Re-Armament and mushroomed into the best-financed and most-discussed evangelistic enterprise of the '20s and '30s, helped convince Van Dusen that there was some life in the old church yet. Though he soon outgrew Buchman's group, Pit had made up his mind, and he started...
John Steuart Curry of Kansas began as a magazine illustrator. By dint of great effort he outgrew that kind of work, although he never quite shook the slavishness to subject matter that is its mark. But Curry did have the boldness to conceive a Cineramic view of the land he loved. At the height of his fame, he called Wisconsin Landscape "my greatest." Grant Wood, like Benton, sowed some Midwestern oats in Paris. There he sported shocking pink whiskers and a Basque beret, painted hazy, impressionistic canvases. Back home in his native Iowa, he mainly taught art for a living...
...unusual business venture in Greeley, Colo. It was the story of Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, a Greeley housewife, who while convalescing from a broken leg came up with an idea for her own business: making and marketing frozen cookie dough (TIME, Sept. 28). The idea caught on and soon outgrew Mrs. Ferguson's home kitchen. The venture was incorporated, and quickly became a center of community investment as Greeley townsfolk rushed to buy stock and admire the new cookie plant, where the Fergusons expect to gross $60,000 this year. Last week TIME'S Denver Correspondent Ed Ogle filed...