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...Growing up as a member of a prosperous family in Poland in the 1920s and '30s, Miles Lerman had no way of knowing he would end up making a mark on the other side of the Atlantic as an anti-Nazi warrior. After the Nazis seized his family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with...
...excited to see a revived interest in aviation at Harvard. Since the school organized the first Harvard Air Meet at Squantum Point in 1923, there were a lot of attempts to reincarnate the Harvard Flying Club that has been around in one form or another since the 1920s, according to Van Baalen, who received his pilot’s license in 1969. “[Reviving an aviation club] is a good idea, and I hope it’s successful,” he said. Proceeds from Saturday’s event went to establishing a library for Harvard...
...author of “Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné,” a comprehensive catalogue of Newman’s work published by the Foundation. Francesca Bewer, a HUAM conservator, points to the donation of John Singer Sargent’s materials and tools in the 1920s as a significant gift of a similar nature. Part of the Forbes Collection of Materials of the Artist, the Sargent studio points to a long-standing interest in an artist’s personal materials. Newman destroyed canvases he was dissatisfied with, leaving fragments that were later found in his studio...
...evening began with a light, carefree mood, thanks to the “Overture to the Great Gatsby” by John H. Harbison ’60. The piece’s jaunty clarinet, saxophone, and piano parts deftly conveyed the cool, foot-tapping breeziness of 1920s ragtime. Its dark, clashing passages poignantly evoked the troubles of Gatsby’s life, as did the lively, often frantic melodies that suggested Gatsby’s extravagant dance parties...
...entrance to PX. After you ring the bell, a host's eyes appear in a peephole, and a voice beckons you upstairs?or denies your entry because the place holds only 30 people. Inside, the bar is decked out with mirrored walls and glass chandeliers. Just like in the 1920s (the bar's era of inspiration), bartenders hand-make cocktail mixers, including the tonic water, bitters and fresh-squeezed juice. eamonnsdublinchipper.com...