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...London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue eyes, matrons twittered, instrumentalists quailed and other cities began...
...Mayflower. More combative than his genteel forebears, Lowell was fascinated by power. He often chose for his theme the doomed great in history: Racine's Phaedra, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra, and Alexander, "double-marching to gain the limits of the globe." Classmates at his prep school, St. Marks, called him Cal, after the despotic Roman emperor Caligula, because he was so imperious. The name stuck all his life. But a critic who described him as "an Old Testament prophet in ungodly times" was perhaps closer to the truth...
...camera back in 1976 to make and then display for his stockholders a reproduction of his favorite Renoir. The Museum of Fine Arts has used the giant camera more recently to shoot the usually hidden side of a prized possession, a 15th century European tapestry titled The Martyrdom of St. Paul. Despite the best efforts of experts to preserve the side visible to the public, it has gradually deteriorated and faded. But when the museum recently replaced the tapestry's linen backing (a once-in-50-years undertaking), the camera was used to photograph the naked back...
...products of Land's new camera will be revealed to the public at a Museum of Fine Arts exhibit entitled "The Martyrdom of St. Paul: A Medieval Tapestry in Sharp Focus." In addition to the actual Martyrdom, the exhibit will include a life-sized, full-color reproduction of the tapestry's reverse side. It will also display ten 51-centimeter by 61-centimeter (20-in. by 24-in.) reproductions and magnifications of selected segments of the tapestry showing such details as the original stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon...
Even under normal conditions, the Yale Golf Club is one of the more demanding tests of golf in the country. It was designed by Charles Blair MacDonald, who won the first United States Amateur Championship in 1895. After learning to alay golf while attending St. Andrews University in Scotland, MacDonald returned to America and became a life-long proselytizer of the game...