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Colleagues of Palache, together with University officials and former students, will held a reception in his honor on February 5 at the Faculty Club. At that time a portrait of him by Irwin Hoffman of New York will be presented to the University; it will later hang at the Mineralogical Museum, where he has been active for forty-five years...
...Portrait of a Press Agent" (TIME Jan. 8): "He [Maney] ushered without pay in a Seattle theatre." Well, Dick Maney may have ushered without pay for some short period in the Moore Theater in Seattle, but my definite recollections-as an usher without pay-was that Dick was a very hard-boiled head usher who unmercifully ordered us school boys up into the balcony if we arrived too late to don one of the purple faced tuxedos and starched dickies required for first floor ushering. And his was a pay job-part salary and a portion of the take...
Caroline of England, subtitled An Augustan Portrait, is the story of the smooth-bosomed, strong-minded Princess of Brandenburg-Anspach who married George Augustus of Hanover (George II) and contrived to rule him and England in the spacious years 1727-37. Peter Quennell's biography of Caroline is the second to appear within the last six months. Less formal than the first, Caroline of Anspach by R. L. Arkell (TIME, Aug. 7) it is actually less a history of the queen than an able and entertaining study of the society in which she moved...
...PORTRAIT OF JENNIE-Robert Nathan -Knopf ($2). A starved artist, his talent frozen, meets a mysterious child in Manhattan's Central Park who is a ghost of both past and future, grows years older with every few months' gap between meetings. Through drawings and portraits of her the artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan...
During the reception a portrait of Professor Parker by Charles Hopkinson. Boston artist, will be presented to the University. The portrait is the gift of a group of about 100 students associates and friends of Professor Parker. If will hang in the Harvard Biological Laboratories...