Word: potters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SoM2/c) E. C. POTTER III c/o Postmaster Miami...
Those lines-"limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon"-have the Beatrix Potter touch themselves...
...level of a hound (chow, liberty and/or sack variety). Now they're all, willing or no, supply beavers, gnawing away at the Manual. But the climax came early this week when Lt. Comdr. Ambrose received the literal bird during his weekly lecture to the junior class in Potter Auditorium. The bird in this case, the class ornithologist claims, was a starling; but whatever it was, it had come into Potter to escape the winter...
...knows how many millions of Beatrix Potter books have reached the world's children. But there are Peter Rabbits in French, German, Welsh, Spanish and Afrikaans. Sales of the small, standard Peter Rabbit book in the U.S. are still high (60,000 in 1943). Last week, as news of Beatrix Potter's death reached the U.S., an exhibition of Rabbitiana was on view in the Children's Room of the New York Public Library...
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency...