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Today the community organized at Hancock, Mass., in 1790 is beginning a new phase of witness to the Shaker way. There are only 932 acres of pasture and farmland instead of some 5,000, and only 17 buildings instead of 34. And there are no Shakers at all. A nonprofit corporation made up largely of well-off summer residents of the Berkshires, titled Shaker Community, Inc., has opened Hancock Shaker Village to the public for seven days a week ($1 for adults, 50? for children), thus preserving the fossil of a unique movement in U.S. religious history...
Slowly the sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal...
...able, aggressive New Orleans lawyer, Frank Ellis, 54, came to Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth...
Died. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, 83, tireless, traveling journalist, who scarcely missed a world maker or a world shaker while logging more than 250,000 miles from 1907 to 1936 as correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; of a stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried...
FOGG: A very interesting collection of Baroque Art Baroquely Hung. Other exhibits include Recent Acquisitions of the Print Department, Twelve Contemporary Paintings, and Shaker Inspirational Drawings...