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...world-famed, and for the beautiful work in glass, silver and furniture fostered by the Swedish Association of Arts & Crafts under renowned Dr. Gregor Paulsson and his successor, Dr. Ake Stavenow. Last spring a committee, including the Worcester Museum's rotund Director Francis Henry Taylor and Russell A. Plimpton, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, decided to pass up sculpture, try to assemble for U. S. showings a selection of old, not new, Swedish handicrafts. Bright, tactful Mr. Plimpton spent the summer in Sweden prying from Swedish museums objects that had not been out of the country...
...result of a police raid on overnight parkers in the vicinity of the Houses, the dawn broke yesterday morning with red tickets fluttering from 25 or 30 windshield wipers along Dunster, Holyoke, Plimpton, and Mill Streets. Not only is the usual "number has been taken" clause there, but stamped on the bottom, it asks the bearer to present the tag at Traffic Division within 24 hours--before 5.30 o'clock...
Weary of his job in the pressroom of the Plimpton Press, Alfred A. Knopf Jr, 19-year-old son of the Manhattan publisher, left Norwood, Mass, with $15 and an ambition to "make his way" in the West. Week later, after his father had aroused the entire U. S., he turned up, penniless and hungry, in a Salt Lake City police station, was promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave...
What the current delegation lacks in absolute face cards, as compared to that of 1935, is compensated by weight other of numbers. Besides President Conant other officers now in Indiana Include Deans Hanford, Chase, Plimpton, Deans-elect Landis and Williams, Professors Henderson, Mayo, Dill, T. N. Whitehead, Doctor Bock. Professor-emeritus Taussig and Secretary to the University Little...
...large a cast it is hard to single out any few individuals for special praise. Mr. Seymer as the dog must certainly be mentioned, however, and Mr. Barnard's naively perplexed air was exactly right for Alan, the hero. Among the women, Misses Plimpton, Eastell, and Williams were particularly good. In many ways, however, Mr. Byrne was the sensation of the evening as a magnificently Rooseveltian dictator. His speech in the second act seems to be already in a way to make history; by all means go to see "The Dog" , if only to hear him say: "My friends...