Word: porcelains
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...little marked grave at one side of the back porch. At the other side lies the grave of a poodle. Two other Glasgow dogs are buried in the Richmond pet cemetery under marble stones. Novelist Glasgow likes dogs so much that she has a collection of some 75 porcelain and pottery dogs. James Branch Cabell also keeps a collector's zoo-lions, cows, horses, elephants, rhinoceroses in glass, bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired one of Miss Glasgow's porcelain dogs so much that she gave it to him. Delighted, Author Cabell...
...obscure tailor, Auguste Renoir was born exactly 100 years ago in the French porcelain-manufacturing city of Limoges. At the age of 14 he started his artistic career in Paris painting pink and blue flowers on teacups. He graduated to painting fans and devotional pictures for missionaries. When he entered the studio of Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre, he soon ran afoul of his sober-minded teacher. Said Gleyre: "You seem to take painting as fun." Agreed Renoir, "If painting were not fun to me I should certainly...
Many other interesting articles of glassware and porcelain are also on display, making the exhibit the most complete of its kind shown in Boston...
...high-magnification details of disease germs are too new to be of anything more than academic interest. But eventually, if science follows its historic course, they will be put to use. Probably scientists will soon make visible the viruses, mysterious disease agents small enough to pass through porcelain filters.* They may uncover the genes (unit heredity carriers) in their hiding places along the chromosomes of germ cells. By ultra-high magnifications of cancerous cells, they may shed the ultimate light on the cause of malignant tumors...
...directly affected was the Limoges (Haviland) porcelain works in central France, world-famed for delicate, artistic craftsmanship. Germany might keep that alive in hope of recovering U. S. markets, but at the moment, with France worrying more about food itself than the dishes it was served on, Limoges porcelain had already gone...