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...shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous photographer of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, who had also photographed the monument's construction, was on hand to record the finish. He snapped a picture of the dedication ceremony from the top of a nearby building...
...Abrams; 289 pages; $49.50), with a knowledgeable text by Herman J. Viola, director of the National Anthropological Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent...
...time stand-in for Mathew Brodcrick on Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoris, Jon Cryer does his best comic work alone. "I once heard it said that if y ou stand in one place long enough, the world will pass you by. It's not true." "Have a girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor...
...Real Thing, by contrast, is love, intimacy, fidelity and trust in marriage. To M.D. Aesechliman, who has written a marvelously moving review of Stoppard's play in the April 6, 1984 National Revies the sentiments expressed in the Real Thingrecall these lines from Mathew Arnold's Dover Beach...
Shoplifting Arrests: Police said they arrested Mathew MeCarthy of Eynn and James Rogers of Allston for allegedly taking $14 in goods from Brigham's in Harvard Square Monday...