Word: steuben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have a marvelous colonial blown-glass harmonica--and not one of those Benjamin Franklin mechanized jobs either. Only one glass broken... no, Corning won't do it... I said they ought to try Steuben...
...catch their breath and feast their eyes have stopped in the small (pop. 19,000) upstate New York glass-manufacturing center of Corning. On view in the Corning Museum of Glass, which is part of the new laboratory and research center of the Corning Glass Works (makers of Steuben crystal) are 128 choice examples from the greatest age of Venetian glassmaking: the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries...
...stood listening to the applause that greeted her in the big auditorium at Southern Methodist University, the plump, kindly lady seemed perilously close to tears. "If I cry," she said, "please forgive me." Then Mrs. Walter William Fondren, 76, accepted the large Steuben vase that ten colleges, hospitals and church organizations had bought for her as a special tribute. "Why I'm chosen," said she, "I'll never know. I've always tried to stay in the background...
...Pontiff's achievements in chapters titled "The Pope as Writer," "The Pope as Jurist," "The Pope of the Virgin Mary" (by Thomas Merton), "The Pope's Works for Peace," etc.; another book dedicated to him by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences titled Galileo, Unjustly Condemned; a Steuben glass cup from U.S. Cardinal Spellman...
...Larsen '21, chairman of the board, announced the appointment. Houghton, who is president of Steuben Glass Inc., will serve on the Ford Fund's board for a full term of three years...