Word: potters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same schedule holds for Haines' Freshmen 150's who also open with the Techmen tomorrow. Reading from bow to stroke, the Yardling shell lists Sam Allen, Bob Menslage, John Bordman, Dick Grosvenor, Tom Day, Sutton Potter, Ted Barrett, and John Wells. Coxing will be Chuch Osborne. Four of these men--Allen, Menslage, Day, and Barrett--had never rowed in a shell before September--a fact which says plenty for the Crimson's fall-winter Freshman training program which yearling coach Harvey Love carries on each year...
...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
...Queen Charlotte bought one of his cream-colored caudle sets (for warm drinks) Wedgwood's diligence began paying off. He got Charlotte's permission to call the line she liked "Queen's Fare" and to style himself "Potter to the Queen." Wedgwood hired the best artists he could find, opened a factory, huge for those days, and powered it with James Watt's newfangled steam engines...
...confused with Beatrix (Peter Rabbit) Potter...