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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sugar bowl is indeed a Staffordshire (see cut). It is part of a 20-piece tea set given to the late Mrs. Artzy-basheff's great-grandmother as a wedding gift. The set survived three ownerships and remained intact until the Artzybasheffs moved from New York City to Connecticut when one cup was broken. If Dealer Hartman has a matching cup, Artist Artzybasheff would like...
Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel...
...Washington at the outbreak of World War II to do deskbound Navy duty. Bad eyesight, the result of a boyhood rock fight, kept him out of shooting war. In wartime Washington, he originated the morale-building idea of awarding an "E" (for Excellence) pennant to outstanding war plants, helped set up the Office of Naval Research, wound up with the rank of rear admiral and the top medals a chairborne warrior could win: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit...
...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicity, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in non-faith, a paradoxical commitment to non-commitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century
...many other respects, the sampling of Radcliffe girls scarcely varied from the patterns set by Harvard undergraduates. The Annex exhibited its fair share of religious fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, agnostics, and atheists...