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...discover in their own heritage. The 125 canvases, roughly half the collection of Detroit Businessman Larry Fleischman, reflect a warmly romantic taste, and uncompromising standards too. Among them: The Uncanny Badger is a strange picture by John La Farge, a mural painter and stained-glass designer of renown who worked mostly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It was inspired by a trip to Japan with his famed friend, Historian-Biographer Henry Adams. In a note scribbled on the picture's back La Farge wrote: "With the Japanese, the badger is uncanny...
...students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others) in a dormitory sex orgy. And the respected dean of Louisiana State University's graduate school, a scientist of world renown, was arrested and charged with the bludgeon murder of a woman biologist...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...seven stars of Heartbreak House seem to be wandering aimlessly in a wilderness of script. Harold Clurman, for all his renown as director, critic, and general wise man of the theatre, seems to have no idea of what to do with Bernard Shaw's disturbing, strange drama...
Many have been to Harvard, and have had longer experience than I in its lore and renown. But I came with such an enthusiastic heart, and with such eager eyes that to me the meanest twig of Harvard is filled with awe and tradition...