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When Clare Brett, 4, fell from her horse and ran a stick into her right eye, she was lucky that the accident occurred at .home in Fairfield, Conn. Near the Bretts (Grandfather George Platt Brett is board chairman of Macmillan Co., publishers) lives Dr. Edward Nicholas DeWitt, able ophthalmologist, 1917 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School where he studied under famed Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz. Dr. DeWitt knew a way to stitch up Baby Brett's torn...
Charles Adams Platt. architect Sc.D...
HARVARD YALE Washburn 118-pound Coppersmith Wagner 126-pound Platt McGranahan 135-pound Valas Lardner 145-pound Van Cleef Kimball 155-pound Mills Emory 165-pound Warner Kidder 175-pound Wight Aranson H. W. Curtin...
...ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When...
...drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...