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Thomas Jefferson Von Steuben...
...Year. The controversy is about the museum's future. Arthur A. Houghton Jr., president of Steuben Glass and chairman of the Cooper Union trustees, points out that only 13,000 people came to the museum all last year (little more than an average day's attendance at the popular Metropolitan Museum). This divides into staff and maintenance costs of almost $10 per visitor. Houghton contends that the Cooper Union budget will soon not be able to handle such costs, which grow each year, while the attendance does not. "The question," he says, "is whether we are doing...
...house at i Sutton Place, overlooking the East River, now belongs to the man who lives next door in Nos. 3 and 5. The buyer of the ivy-covered pied-a-terre, sold at auction fortnight ago for a stupendous $436,000: Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 55, president of Steuben Glass, who purchased the property "as a long-term investment." It should prove a good one. In 1943 the Georgian brick residence, built in 1925 for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, sold for just...
...characteristic of Monroe, with his gift for being in the right place at the historic moment, that at 22 he was present at the grand victory ball in Fredericksburg, Va., after Cornwallis' surrender, mingling with George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, Light Horse Harry Lee, Baron von Steuben, Count de Grasse and other great captains of the Revolution...
...neighborhood did (volunteers received $1), but also because "I collected pretty correct ideas of the contest between this country and the mother country." The following spring Martin re-enlisted, and for the next six years fought at New York, Monmouth and Yorktown, and under Generals Washington, Lafayette and Steuben...