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Through a White House announcement this week, Harry Truman hauled a red-hot chestnut out of the political fire. Press Secretary Joseph Short announced that the nomination of General Mark W. Clark as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican would not be resubmitted to the Senate. The President will make another nomination, said Short, but he carefully avoided saying when...
...knew turn-of-the-century Paris better than Photographer Eugene Atget. He trudged its boulevards and back alleys, aiming his antique box camera at the sidewalks, the rooftops, the chestnut trees, the shop windows and the people. Passers-by suspected him of being a lunatic or even a spy. Artier photographers ridiculed him as a crackpot and tasteless hack. Among the few to appreciate his work as time went by was U.S. Photographer Berenice Abbott...
Norristown (wrongly identified as Conshohocken in the exhibition catalogue), ten miles from Stuempfig's Chestnut Hill home, is far from romantic to the unpracticed eye. But by painting it from a vantage point overlooking the Schuylkill River, Stuempfig has thrown new light on its smoke-darkened silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter...
GEBELEIN, master silversmith at 79 Chestnut Street in Boston, has been associated with original, fine, silverwork ever since Beacon Hill has been associated with Boston. The show room and shop are in the same building, and offer such items as this candle snuffer, the handle a replica of Paul Revere's sword and the top, a model of his hat. This item goes for $10.00, and is but one of the many objects in modern and antique silverware offered at Gebelein...
Styled in silver, this sterling cigarette holder is a replica of an early 18th Century Colonial Ale tankard. It stands 2 3/4 inches high and was fashioned in detail by one of Boston's oldest silversmits, GEBELEIN, at 79 Chestnut...