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...Kuhn is philosophical about his past struggles: "I got my beatings early and I have an awfully tough hide. The fact is I've been solvent for only two or three years, but now they buy my pictures as an investment. It's grotesque. I even have to sell my stuff on installments so the Government won't get all the money. That's legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway...
...years ago, a bronze smelter named Bruno Bearzi set out to prove that there was. Instead of scraping the doors, as others had tried, he mixed a special solvent to wash away the dirt and corrosion of centuries. Last week, while the Baptistery choir sang and long trumpets blared, the curtains over the doors fell away. At the sight, women fell to their knees; men wept. After all the years, Ghiberti's doors glistened and gleamed once more as he had made them...
Other arrangements to Coop customers financially solvent have already been made. The organization will approve members' checks, which can then be cashed free at the Cambridge Trust Company...
...nations which had been hardest hit by World War II (e.g., Britain, France, Belgium, Italy) were ready to go farthest in international cooperation. The nations which had suffered least (e.g., Sweden and Switzerland) acted as a brake. Apparently suffering was the surest solvent for stubborn nationalism...
...University management: Few of us who worked on the CRIMSON will forget the satisfaction it brought us to see some of our needing result in significant changes in policy. The friendships formed at the CRIMSON through feverish efforts to meet deadlines and struggles to keep the paper solvent are likely to be lasting. It I were to go through college again, I should make the CRIMSON more of a major interest than in fact...