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Tapestries in the Scrapbook. Rorimer also went on to Harvard, had the advantage of studying under Paul Sachs (who trained most of the nation's art directors and curators). "Our best training at college," Rorimer recalls, "consisted in picking out the finest works of art from large groups of photographs. It was a case of looking at both the forest and the trees, developing selectivity." As a student, Rorimer became increasingly fascinated by medieval art, pasted in his scrapbook pictures of the famed Unicorn tapestries, which are now a special pride of The Cloisters...
...scrapbook measurements, Vice President Nixon's 28-day, ten-country swing through Mexico and the Caribbean area was a bulging success. It brought reams of enthusiastic newspaper stories, and snapshots of Dick and Pat Nixon getting keys to cities, eating bananas in banana republics, shaking hands with grinning laborers, sipping coconut milk, greeting hospital patients, and-finally-getting the big welcome-home hug from their kids after landing in Washington last weekend. But between the scrapbook pages there was another story-the story of grueling, 18-hour days, of hard cramming that would stagger a Phi Beta Kappa...
...mixture of airman's logbook and autobiography, Knoke's is the first full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime chief of the Ninth Tactical...
Armed with this information, which less sophisticated scholars seem to have missed, Wahlgren besieged the farm. The Ohman sons, who are sick of the whole business, would not let him see the scrapbook or the encyclopedia, but he satisfied himself that Farmer Ohman really had both of them. Then he gumshoed around the neighborhood and found that Ohman, though uneducated in a formal sense, was a smart man who often expressed an urge to fool the scholars...
There were many such examples, and more came from Holvik's copy of the scrapbook. One erudite article in it, for instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars. Some thought it meant "Ave Maria." Wahlgren is sure that crafty old Farmer Ohman intended it as a learned pun, his way of having fun with the experts...