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...Violinist & the Pastry Cook. Two of the biggest are Chicago's Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., which made the dolls for Lord & Taylor (opposite), and Manhattan's Staples-Smith Inc., which designed the Nativity scene for Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Between them, the two companies gross well over $2,000,000 a year, serve nearly 100 stores around the U.S. Silvestri specializes in composition mechanical dolls that cost up to $1,150 apiece ($18,000 for a complete set of 60) and can be dressed up to resemble a Viennese violinist or a French pastry cook...
HARVARD TUFTS McTernen, cf 3b,Silvestri Lupien, lb ss, Spath Bilodeau, ss c., Acorra Owen, 3b 2b, Collier Sullivan, rf rf, Tominey Colwell, c cf, Philpott Allen, lf 1b, Colclough Grondahl, 2b lf, Lillis Walsh or Curtiss, p p, Galuska or Wojciochowski...
...Filippo Silvestri, of the Regia Scuola Superiore de Agricultura, Portici, Italy, Zoology...
HARVARD TUFTS Adzigian, 2b lf, Donnelly Gibbs, cf rf, Lillis Bilodean, ss ss, Spath Owen, 3b 2b, Collier Sullivan, rf lb, Colclough Prouty, 1b cf, McGee Maguire, c 3b, Silvestri McTernen, lf c, Acerra Walsh or Tittmann, p p, Harris...
...been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were in like danger of drying, of crumbling. He set himself to perform what Cavenaghi had overlooked. For many weeks, while visitors came, stared, departed, he delicately dabbed and rubbed, last week successfully completed his restoration...