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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like father, like son. At the age of 16, Prince Yeshwant was married-to a girl aged ten. Two years later he left her temporarily for an education at Oxford, where he acquired modern ideas. Back in Indore. a state about the size of Vermont but with 1,300,000 inhabitants (four times as many as Vermont), he built the first air-conditioned palace in India. He did not recondition Indore's archaic tax structure, which gave him one rupee in every three of revenue (estimated annual state income: $5,000,000). Among his reforms have been laws curbing...
...Oxford Bernard Berenson met Trivialist Logan Pearsall Smith and his sister, Mary Logan Smith Costelloe, whom he later married. In Italy he found the land and the loveliness he had been looking for. He supported himself in Florence by taking tourists through art galleries at one lira per head, in mortal terror of being knifed by one of the local guides. In 1894 Berenson published Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four compact little books each of which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each...
...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...
HOLMES OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE-M. A. DeWolfe Howe-Oxford Universify Press...
Bibliophiles are responsible for Bruce Rogers' reputation as "a limited editions man." But expensive limited editions, such as his Montaigne and Oxford Bible, account only indirectly for Bruce Rogers' influence on U. S. and British bookmaking. Far more influential were the trade editions he designed during his 17 years with Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books...