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...persist at least another half-decade. For the individual, eight terms in Cambridge are more than ever a matter of what he chooses to make them. The resources of a distinguished university are still available; they are simply being worked much more intensively. Harvard's plush may be wearing thin, but the foundation and the framework are still first-rate...
...Shillelagh. For once, the Government had a big shillelagh it could and, apparently, would use to break the strike and keep U.S. transport moving. At his press conference, Harry Truman's thin lips tightened when a reporter asked what he intended to do on June 15. He said he would use the Navy, War Shipping, the Army and the Coast Guard; nothing would be spared to keep the ships going...
There were two levels of the wartime underground in Europe: anonymous patriots who could sometimes fight back a little, and-farther down-wanted men who had to burrow and keep hidden. Gisele van der Gracht's Amsterdam apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...
...Standard Oil tax specialist and educated at Michigan's Hope College and Princeton Theological Seminary, thin-faced Pastor Smith had planned to work among miners. When the Presbyterian Board of National Missions offered him the Scotts Run post, he jumped at it. He took up residence in the "Shack," a long, narrow, white and green building sandwiched between the railroad tracks and State Highway...
...Keeffe's art, says Museum director of painting and sculpture James Johnson Sweeney, in a forthcoming Museum book on O'Keeffe, is "stark but always constrained. . . . And the way she came to this was by the severest self-stripping." O'Keeffe, a thin, austere-looking woman, has been stripping herself for a long time. Born 58 years ago in the small town of Sun Prairie, Wis., she decided to paint as she pleased, because "it seemed to be the only thing that I could do that did not concern anyone but myself...