Word: curiosities
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Stories with Guts. Most school boards, even if they wanted McGuffey's Readers, would have supposed them out of print; the Twin Lakes men discovered that American Book Co. began to reprint them in the '20s to the order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios...
Kicking off another busy week, Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach...
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8...
At a Chicago fund-raising fiesta aimed at giving chronically indigent Poetry Magazine a dollar transfusion, cerebral Bollingen Prizewinning Poet John Crowe Ransom helped dredge up more than $20,000 (mostly in donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an...
But by 1900, the white man's demand for the sea otter had all but exterminated the Indian's main trading staple. Gone with the sea otter were prosperity and the passion for the potlatch. The gradual loss of ritual meaning stultified Northwest Indian art, turned its craftsmen...