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...odor of fresh-baked bread lured Dr. Edward Deming Andrews into a Shaker colony at Hancock, Mass. There & then (1920) he began collecting Shaker art. Last week, in two big rooms in the Berkshire Museum at Pittsfield, Mass, his collection, the most complete in the U. S., was put on view...
Vigorous, young (45), excellent golfer (70s) and able dice shaker, Knight has worked as heir or owner in nearly every part of the Beacon-Journal plant. Since he dislikes chain journalism's uniformity, Publisher Knight tries to give each of his papers a personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled...
...French enlightenment was strong in men like Jefferson and Madison, the Baptists and Presbyterians were settling the frontier. Bates gives a clear account of these and other sects, of the political forms that grew from their beliefs and necessities, of the Utopian demo cratic optimism shown in the Shaker communes and Brook Farm experiments of the early 19th Century. His book closes with the Civil...
...there is one generalization which can safely be drawn concerning music today it is that this is a primarily symphonic age. All over the country people flock to concert-halls to hear the modern orchestra, like some gigantic cocktail-shaker, dish up a little Beethoven, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov...
Rhode Island: Horace G. Killam, Jr. Providence, Rhode Island. Rochester, New York: Richard M. Bloch, Rochester and Howard A. Joos, Rochester. Rocky Mountain, Colorado: David R. Howard, Boulder, Colorado. St. Louis: Joseph M. Leahey, St. Louis. Washington, District of Columbia: Henry H. Dearing, Jr., Shaker Heights, Ohio. Western Pennsylvania: Edmund J. Steytler, Pittsburgh, and Robert G. Tyson, Pittsburgh. Harvard Graduates living in Milton: John L. Cady, Milton...