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Jerry Wells, Sutton Potter, Dick Grosvenor, and Johnny Bordman, all members of the 1949 varsity eight, are pressing the first boat for their seats...
...Leach returned to England with a famous fellow potter named Shoji Hamada, and set up a kiln at St. Ives. The pottery still produced there by Leach and twelve students is much prized by his fans...
George P. Baker, Jr., Stephen R. Petschek, F. Arthur White, and Samuel B. Potter took the negative side, holding that while a need exists for such a program, under present conditions it would be impractical to legislate against the abuses...
...When Potter Palmer built his house on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive in 1882, it had all the appurtenances of a princely European castle except the princes. The redoubtable Mrs. Potter Palmer took care of that. She chartered a yacht, set off for Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II, and returned triumphantly with a swatch of Russian princelings and princesses to waltz in her velvet-lined ballroom...
...Potter Palmer was the merchant who brought the bargain sale to Chicago, the real-estate operator who shifted its shopping center from Lake Street to State Street, its residential district from the South Shore to the North; the hotel man who built the first two Palmer Houses* and, in the second, set a style by paving its barbershop with silver dollars. His wife brought big-time Society to gawky, brash Chicago...