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Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****“Disarmament … is a continuing imperative.” That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the nation, delivered six decades ago as he prepared to leave office. President Joe Biden has returned arms control negotiations with Russia to status as a top policy priority. He seeks a five-year extension

  Tuesday Jan 26, 2021 at 3:14 PM Jan 26, 2021 at 3:15 PM Columns share an author’s personal perspective. ***** “Disarmament … is a continuing imperative.” That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the nation, delivered six decades ago as he prepared to leave office. President Joe Biden has returned arms control negotiations with Russia to status as a top policy priority. He seeks a five-year extension of the New START Treaty signed in 2010 by President Barack...

Share via Shortlink Thor Chairman Joe Sitt, Stefano Ricci CEO Niccolo Ricci and the Miami store. (Getty, Thor, Miami Design District)   A mortgage trustee is suing affiliates of Thor Equities and fashion house Stefano Ricci, as well as Thor Chairman Joe Sitt, over an alleged unpaid loan on a Miami Design District property, with the plaintiff seeking foreclosure or receivership. At issue is $17 million in an unpaid loan by the Thor affiliate, according to documents filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court last month. Wellington Trust is the mortgage trustee and plaintiff in the case, and Mid...

Gustave Doré, in full Paul-Gustave Doré, (born January 6, 1832, Strasbourg, France—died January 23, 1883, Paris), French printmaker, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. In 1847 he went to Paris, and from 1848 to 1851 he produced weekly lithographic caricatures for the Journal pour Rire and several albums of lithographs (1847–54). His later fame rested on his wood-engraved book illustrations. Employing more than 40 woodcutters, he ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection Robert Louis Stevenson at Baker’s with cigarette and skates — a diorama by Dwight Franklin. “Walking over the fields, with a stick in his hand and his skates thrown over his shoulders, he looked and seemed his happiest.” — Bertha Baker, Saranac Lake Behind glass in Robert Louis Stevenson’s former study at Baker’s in Saranac Lake lies a pair of very old and worn ice skates, the very ones used by the author of “The Master of Ballantrae” on Moody Pond in the winter of 1887-88. Will Hickock Low, an American artist who, be...