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...night before his death in 1799, George Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
Dangerous Dan, 28, now a $125-a-month orderly at a Mount Vernon (N.Y.) hospital, was enjoying the landslide he had set in motion. He still had a long legal row to hoe before collecting any of the $300,000. But he was not backing down. Said he last week: "I'm back in my own country now and I can't play ball. That's why I'm going through with this case...
...Japanese, the Golden Hall with its Buddhas has been as important a national shrine as Mount Vernon to Americans. In Tokyo the Minister of Education, Yasumaro Shimojo, was so distressed (even though the hall itself could be restored) that he offered to resign. In Cambridge, Mass., where last week Fogg Museum officials hung twelve full-scale photographs of the murals to show the public what had been destroyed, Oriental art experts glumly compared the artistic loss to what the Western art world would lose in a fire in the Sistine Chapel...
...very good job of cleaning, and may cause "abrasion cavities" by wearing off the enamel. A year and a half ago he started out to find something better. Last week, having cho sen the final design, he was ready to start 500-a-day production in a Mt. Vernon, N.Y. machine shop...
...stylistic mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken quickly shows itself.) What a reader misses here is what he finds in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought: one mind in command of a subject, sometimes pulling a boner but more often arousing excitement and curiosity, and always leaving on the reader the sharp stamp of an individual point of view...