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...Silver & Snuff. Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
Since then, it has acquired some gifts that have little to do with its chosen field. Mrs. Lang gave it a collection of American Indian art that is one of the best in the East. It has a collection of Scotch, Irish and French silverware-and 600 Chinese snuff bottles. But these items came by bequest; the museum uses its own funds to buy U.S. paintings, drawings and etchings...
...bands. With the rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even making a desert of Cabinda...
...Republicans. In circulation, the News is Texas' biggest newspaper (217,037, against the Houston Post's 216,538). But by many accepted standards, the News is not up to snuff: it stints on international and national news, prefers to adorn its pages with local and syndicated columnists. The heart of the News is its editorial page, and it is generally agreed that in its local editorial influence the News ranks second to no paper anywhere. Conservative Dallas is the political reflection of the conservative News. In politics, this means that Dallas and the News prefer Republicans to Democrats...
...Diplomat Jean Nicot failed in his mission to marry off Queen Catherine de Medici's daughter to the King of Portugal. But Nicot won royal favor all the same by picking up in Lisbon an American weed whose most important ingredient today bears his name: nicotine. Ground into snuff, the tobacco successfully cured Queen Catherine of incessant headaches -it made her sneeze hard enough to clear out her sinuses...