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...Other nonprofit magazines include National Geographic, Ms., Mother Jones and Smithsonian...
...west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...always been at his acerbic best when challenging modern ideas of what is civilized in fields such as clothing, street design, architecture, even staircases. A former visiting professor of art at Yale who has organized exhibits for the U.S. Government abroad, he is now scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City. There his latest "salute to the unknown art of living" is a wryly provocative exhibition designed to prove that bathing, eating, sleeping, sitting and a few other domestic matters were managed better in older cultures, especially in the Orient...
...because Wally Amos talks to them. "I give them words of encouragement," he confides. For example: "Come on, you guys, bake!" That strategy has not only made Amos famous, but it has made his bakery a $250 million-a-year enterprise in fewer than six years. And now the Smithsonian Institution has added some frosting by representing Amos in its business Americana collection. In a Washington, D.C., ceremony, Amos formally gave the Smithsonian his trademark Panama hat and embroidered shirt, thus becoming the first entrepreneur to lose his shirt because he was in the chips...
...first meeting last May--at which Field announced his decision to step down from the directorship in 1983--the Board began to consider appointing separate directors under Field's authority for the two organizations that comprise CFA, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Harvard College Observatory...