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Mattatuck Drum Corps, from nearby Waterbury, paraded in Revolutionary uniforms, rattling loud tattoos. Traffic Cop Arnold Belanger dressed up like George Washington. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, dean of Hartford Theological Seminary, read a prologue. But, in spite of this whoop-dee-do, West Hartfordians' emotions were mixed. They had been mixed ever since Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski had first suggested adorning West Hartford with his statue of Noah Webster...
...Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
...refer [TIME, July 28] to Colonel Josiah Wedgwood as a "china merchant" and "potter." In point of fact Colonel Wedgwood has never been actively connected with the family business. The reason is that the three brothers who owned the business between 1870 and 1890 drew up a partnership agreement which allowed each one to introduce only one son into the firm. Colonel Wedgwood's eldest brother was chosen for the honor, and the two younger sons were automatically excluded...
...Professor Hower quarrel with "potter" but not with TIME'S figures, supplied by New York headquarters of Wedgwood itself. Since war, Wedgwood's normal 55% North American sales have jumped to 90% due to the British luxury tax (33%$>)> loss of Continental and Empire markets...
Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...