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Young marrieds of the 1940s could not go wrong with Russel Wright, then easily the country's best-known designer. His furniture and tableware were smart, modern, practical and informal. Best of all, they were cheap. In 1940, a 20-piece "starter set" of Wright's American Modern pottery dinner dishes cost about $6. The announcement that year of a new shipment at Gimbels' New York store caused block-long lines and a near riot. The design had never been as popular in America...
Wright's designs went out of fashion long before he died in 1976. The exhibition "Russel Wright: American Designer" (currently at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y., and opening at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., in November) should revive fond memories and be an exciting discovery for those who never heard...
...Russel B. Higgly, Cambridge city solicitor, said. "I'm sure it would be litigated to death--right up to the Supreme Court...
Peske's review by the New Hampshire hard board resulted from the Vermont board's action, New Hampshire board President Stuart W. Russel said, adding that the board voted last week in conduct on investigation and to limit Peske's practice to male patients only. "What disciplinary ride we take depends on the finding, he said...
...educated herself, reading widely and becoming fluent in Spanish, French and Italian. After returning to the U.S. in 1929, she studied philosophy under Bertrand Russel at Columbia, where the two became fast friends and weekly dinner partners. But Fenwick didn't appreciate Russell's anti-American sentiments, and the friendship soon ended...