Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they were wasting their young lives addressing envelopes. They agreed that a dramatic gesture was required to break the world's shocking indifference. A wonderful idea was born...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...
...ticket, but was in no hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint. 'Paint you and me going to the country on a bicycle,' he suggested...
Interned by the Nazis, Expatriate O'Brady taught herself to draw by doing pencil portraits of other inmates. After her release, she began exhibiting neat, sweet Paris street scenes, garnished with wandering nudes and airplanes decked in flowers. In a Paris jaded with more sophisticated art, her simplicity hit the spot. Wrote one critic: "The only great painter of the New World" (TIME...
Other Rockefeller family gifts to Harvard during the last half century include funds for the Medical School, Divinity School, Fogg Art Museum, Germanic Museum, and Law School, as well as the University as a whole...