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Forced to learn from local journeymen artists, Copley unwittingly developed a native vision. His metallic colors, hard lines and precise realism produced steely likenesses of such colonial worthies as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock. Learning by trial and error, he made his clients sit for as many as 900 hours while he perfected their portraits. Rates were strictly by size: "Whole lengths 40 guineas, half lengths 20, ¼ pieces or busts...
...shoppers a quiet, inexpensive place to lunch. The idea caught on, and the Lyons teashops, named for a relative and staffed by "Nippies" in ankle-length black dresses and frilly white caps, spread quickly. Twelve Salmon and Gluckstein descend ants now run the company under the leadership of Sir Samuel Salmon, 65, who likes to pop in unexpectedly to test the food (mass-produced but wholesome) and the service (usually snappy) in his restaurants...
Under the Orlop. "A ship," Dr. Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is worse than a gaol. There is, in gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in danger." Johnson's opinion, uttered in 1776, was still relevant in 1797. Britain's infamous press gangs roamed the country, seized any able-bodied men that caught their eyes, and flung them aboard ships that, Dugan writes, were "not built to fit men; the men were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many...
...Mayor Samuel H. Yorty of Los Angeles has stood squarely behind Police Chief William H. Parker, who believes solidly in hard-nosed, no-holds-barred law enforcement. Chief Parker is not an admirer of the U.S. Supreme Court nor of civil rights organizations, which have criticized him constantly. Mayor Yorty is just as hostile to such groups. He pictures himself as persecuted by professional liberals, civil rights leaders, the state of California, and the federal government; certainly he has been able to cooperate with none of them. (For example, Los Angeles has no poverty program.) Yorty takes all this abuse...
...Samuel Williston, for whom the new professorship is named, was a professor at the Law School until his retirement...