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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather surprised to read in TIME, June 30 that Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is in the Louvre. This painting is usually regarded as being the finest example of Da Vinci's work in this country...
...shadow of Ottawa's National War Memorial one morning last week, three little Canadian boys gravely examined the card on a wreath just placed there by a visitor from the U.S. "What's it say?" asked one. An older passer-by read it for them. "It says," said this man, "'the President of the United States.'" Then he added quietly: "Bless his heart...
...lobbies with his entourage. Reporters and TVmen jumped at the beck of his pressagents any time of day or night. Seasoned politicos of both parties swallowed nervously every time he dropped a new political name. And behind the guarded gates of the White House, the President's staff read the news tickers in continuing wonderment to see what manner of man this was for whom Staff Chief Adams had vouched as a close personal friend...
...students as A. Whitney Griswold. now Yale's president, Gabriel presented a systematic, thought-prodding evaluation of the history of ideas in the U.S. Writing summers in a shack in the New Hampshire woods, he has filled a shelf with basic texts in American history, including his widely read The Course of American Democratic Thought. He lit few Roman candles while lecturing, nevertheless attracted up to 400 students to his classes...
...sort of thing you read about in psychological novels. Morris was a young man out of the West who came to Harvard because he wanted to be a writer, and the Cambridge community had spawned its share of the literati--from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Conrad Aiken and Henry Miller. The spectrum appeared to be wide enough for Morris--hero of the high school avant-garde. And he brought plenty of yellow paper with...