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...Jenner's key lieutenant in Indiana, decided that he would issue an ultimatum of his own. He had an antique mantel clock placed on his desk at the front of the senate chamber and announced that he was going to end the session exactly at midnight on the 61st day. If no budget bill had been passed and the Craig administration had no money, that would be just...
...Chicago Art Institute's 61st annual roundup of contemporary American painting and sculpture, which opens next week, will prove once again that the nation's artists are mostly sold on some form of abstraction. Doubtless most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even most of the prizes, too, will go to pictures unlikely to win a popularity, or even intelligibility, contest. But ordinary visitors, to whom the latest fashions in art are immaterial, may find Jack Levine's trend-bucking canvas (opposite) one of the most rewarding things...
This book takes General Washington from his triumphal return to planter's life at Mount Vernon in 1783 to his 61st birthday and the end of his first term as President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this...
...Other Request? In Birmingham, Ala., after petitioning city officials to pave their street, three residents of 61st Street South were informed that, due to a surveyor's error, their homes had been built in what was technically the street, and they would have to move their houses, whether they wanted paving...
...coming from behind three times to gain the victory over Davidson, the Crimson assured itself of its first winning year since 1948, and of its 61st victorious season in 79 campaigns. Ten losing years and eight even ones are also on the ledger...