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Conquered & Collected. The fancy for pre-Columbian art dates back to the conquistadores. At first, only Europe's artists admired the primitive sculpture. Then, in 1867, when Maximilian's soldiers returned from Mexico with hundreds of figurines, the collectors' interest was piqued. One of the earliest finds was the famed stone statue of Goddess Tlazolteotl in the act of childbirth (see cut). A French collector first bought it for a few francs. Current owner: U.S. Collector Robert Woods Bliss, who has it insured...
Standardized menus for the Houses probably will not be instituted before next winter at the earliest. "It is my considered opinion that the plan will not have started by the beginning of Fall term," Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department, said yesterday...
Miss Stein's earliest known writings were written in 1894-5 when she was taking English 22 under William Vaughn Moody. Rosalind S. Miller, in Gertrude Stein: Form and Intelligibility, described those early themes as "introspective," as more significant than the hackneyed conventional themes which ruin the eye and enfeeble the mind of the college English teachers." Mrs. Miller mentions Gertrude's sense of humor as being "Not sophomoric witticism, but rather the subtle understatement of which she was later to become master." It is interesting to note professional comments on the sides of the pages; such praise an "interesting...
...addition to the manuscripts, the library posesses a striking collection of that rare bibliophilic genre, incunabula. These volumes represent the earliest of printed books, dating from the invention of the printing press in the middle 15th Century until...
...time getting them to give up the cavalry. They liked to ride those horses." By the simple expedient of packing his Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, he lopped the Navy's atomic-powered supercarrier out of the defense budget last year. Yet at the same time he was one of the earliest and strongest advocates of the atomic submarine...