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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rush. In Secane, Pa. (pop. 427), Postmistress Orvilla M. Hardican admitted that a few parcels posted a couple of years ago were still kicking around the post office, but promised to get them moving "as soon as she found the time...
Persuaders. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Louis Booth, charged with failing to put a nickel in a parking meter, convinced the judge that the meter was installed after he parked his car. In Lancaster, Pa., Tag Manufacturer Martin M. Keener paid his fine on an overtime parking charge, left the police station with an order for 9,000 parking tags...
Those of Senior standing elected are: Alan S. Cohen '47 of Dorchester; Norman Geschwind '46 of Dunster House and Brooklyn; Henry B. Helson '47 of Adams House and Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Ivan I. Morris '46 of Manchester, Mass...
Logan was an 18th Century gentleman farmer, an author of pamphlets on crops and soil, and a Quaker pacifist. He lived on a 500-acre estate near Germantown, Pa., dabbled in medicine, and habitually wore homespun clothes to encourage domestic manufacture. In 1798, Logan saw the U.S., attacked and insulted, preparing for war. French warships had seized U.S. vessels. The French foreign minister, Talleyrand, had cynically tried to exact what amounted to a tribute from the infant country. Nevertheless, Quaker Logan viewed U.S. intentions with consternation, and as a self-appointed peacemaker sailed for France...
Though he is only 29, Andrew has been painting for 17 years. He left school at twelve to study in his father's Chadds Ford, Pa. studio with his artist sisters, Carolyn and Henriette (whose husband, New Mexico's Peter Kurd, is also a painter). Andrew had his first one-man show at 20. He sold every painting in it, and has since found buyers for almost everything he paints...