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Peter Pelham, a relatively unknown Boston mezzotint engraver and portrait painter, died in 1751, leaving his studio to his thirteen-year-old stepson. In the course of the next two years, that studio studio provided the nutriment for what became one of the richest and most vital careers in the history American painting. Pelham's stepson was John Singleton Copley, and his career is commemorated this year a major retrospective exhibition of his work. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have gathered 103 oils, pastels, minatures, and drawing (including...
...decision worked like a bugle call. "Off to the races!" he cried at an 8 a.m. capitol press conference. Then, boarding a battered DC-7 in Sacramento, Brown prop-stopped from the far north to the Mexican border for a series of six airport press conferences announcing his candidacy. Thirteen hours and 1,500 miles later, Brown, 60, was as perky as ever. "When I get into a political campaign," he chortled, "the old adrenalin starts shooting through my veins...
Several colleges are engaged in transfer programs similar to the one proposed by the HUC. Swarthmore exchanges students with Pomona, and Michigan has a program with Tuskegee Institute. The Harvard proposal is more extensive and could involve over 400 students from the thirteen schools each year. The HUC plans for 30 to 40 sophomores to participate in the program...
Sedlacek fired in 26 points for Harvard, and Neville sank eight of thirteen shots for 17 points...
Thus all students in the Boston area receive with their applications a letter which ends: "I shall be glad to furnish you with any additional information you require, or you may write to the National Director, Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt. Sincerely, H. Ronald Rowse." Three personal pronouns in the first thirteen words. Of course, you will mail your application directly to Professor Rowse, and the fact that his address is "Mathematics Department / Pearson Hall" reminds you that you are corresponding with a scholar, not an administrator. Moreover, around the time you receive your Wilson application forms--but under separate cover...