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...Straw Beard and Cigarette...
...there was a professor at Harvard with a straw-colored beard, who stalked through the Yard with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He--Barrett Wendell-- put an end to the university's avoidance of a national literature. His "special study" graduate course remained stubbornly alone in the catalogue until 1902, when it was joined by a course which has been given at Harvard, or at least listed in the catalogue, for 55 years: English 33hf, which was changed to English 7 in a general course renumbering in 1935. The course was called "The History of American Literature...
...pioneer modern architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...this point, a figure arose from the other end of the counter. Corduroy trousers, a surplus Army combat jacket (over a crew neck sweater), and upon his face the stubby bristle of a cultivated beard...
...highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere, I go for the hard liquor...