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Harvard and the Pre-Raphaelites had never gotten along too well. Seventy years ago Harvard's eloquent art professor Charles Eliot Norton came back from vacations in England and talks with Ruskin to preach the Pre-Raphaelite gospel. His lectures were crowded because his courses were regarded as a cinch; Norton, in disgust at his lack of conversions, told his students that they were just "roughnecks." His enthusiasm for the P.R.B. boys, however, caught one young student, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, who was a wealthy retired lawyer when he died in 1943. Winthrop left his art collection...
...World War II wondered how they had ever gotten along without her. She listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
...burial. When they saw the lights, they "didn't want to be accountable for borrowed property. . . . They started stepping on the gas." They brought back to Blakesburg "the smell of burning rubber tires, hot engines with radiators boiling over. . . . And all who hadn't gotten lost or wrecked on the highways hunted for the car owners on the Blakesburg streets. Their hurrying home to go into eternity from their native city was a touching scene to the white citizens, who faced with them for the first time, equality of Death and impartiality in the last and final judgment...
...rivals. Says he: "There's always room for three or four at the top. To me Crosby doesn't have to sing. Does he have to prove anything? It's like saying you like butter on your bread or water with your Scotch. You've gotten so used to it you think you can't do without it. Some man sat down with a pipe and thought Sinatra up. It couldn't have happened to a nicer...
...steel industry had gotten its open hearths going in double-quick time. It would be up to 78.4% of capacity this week. But weeks will pass before steel is flowing evenly to industry again. And the boost in steel prices has raised a host of new problems for suppliers. OPA hoped that the raise might be absorbed along the line. But where and how? The price raise may make it harder than ever for manufacturers to break the bottlenecks -e.g., in castings-which have plagued industry as viciously in peace as in war. For lack of one small part, many...