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...16th Century Portugal, the stock advice to give an ambitious young man was "Go East." The East meant silks and spices, porcelain and pearls, the fabulous fast & loose traffic with India, China and the Indies. After a single voyage, men sometimes retired for life...
...turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used, silicone enamel (a cross between porcelain and plastic used for washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), and a long-keeping commercial shortening for cooking. The latest project: an economical way to extract Cortisone from soybeans...
...white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic loss ... to the sound, lively and folk-based realism of our time." Among the approved new themes: "work, sports and reconstruction." But Meissen may also continue to make an occasional fancy item for export purposes, such as the elaborate porcelain group entitled Victory of the People that it recently forwarded to the Kremlin...
...host of Harvard clubs and fraternities will throw wide their doors to visiting Indians. The Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has invited all Dartmouth fraternity members to a post game party in the spacious SAE clubhouse at 2 Holyoke Street, in Cambridge. At the came time, Harvard's Porcelain Club will hold the gale open house for visiting Indians at 1324 Massachusetts Avenue, also in Cambridge. Only Dartmouth students and their gates will be welcome...
Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust...