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...Bachelder, pottery craftsman of the old school, who was a poverty-stricken failure at 58, is now, ten years later, one of the most sought-after ceramic artists in America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from...
...added that U. S. contributions to stricken Japan made a "tremendous impression on the Japanese, thousands of whom had the idea that the Americans at home did not like them...
...Culberson, grievously stricken in health, but still possessed of his fund of humor and anecdote, has begun to set down the experiences of his 30 years in public life ?from the time when as Governor of Texas he put a stop to one of Bob Fitzsimmons' prize fights by calling the Legislature to prohibit, it ?to last November when the Ku Klux Klan unseated...
...born into an agreeably futile and wholly poverty-stricken family; education brushes him lightly by; diphtheria and a consequent period of paralysis afford him early opportunity for cheerful submission; he becomes identified with an advertising firm, then another, in which his native ingenuity and artistic talent bring him reasonable success. An abortive love affair with a co-worker is ended abruptly by the lady's untimely suicide; he finally marries a childhood sweetheart, against his mother's passionate protest, and finds in her a voracious wife who does her best to swallow his soul and finally runs away...
...Their countrymen in Japan, the American Ambassador, Mr. Woods, his entire staff, and other American residents stayed with us through the darkest hours of our calamity like soldiers at posts of duty, giving aid and comfort to our stricken people. Disasters may hurl down monuments of stone and bronze, time may wear them into dust, but nothing can destroy our precious memories of American service and heroism during the most appalling convulsion of the elements in all recorded history...