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...cigar-smoking, 32-year-old sculptress named Fiore de Henriquez rippled the placid pond of British art last summer by inspiring venerable (75) Painter Augustus John to work in clay (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week Fiore was showing off her own work at her first one-woman show in London. She was a good show herself, greeting visitors with a middleweight's handclasp, swinging her heavy black mop of hair and dusting her 21 exhibits with the sleeves of her sweater. Her work was less lively than she, but it showed promise...
...define their age in a lifetime; Charles Augustus Lindbergh did it in 33½ hours. When The Spirit of St. Louis hopped the Atlantic nonstop from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, the Age of Flight finally came of age. Nowadays, when any weekday finds hundreds of passengers casually making the trans atlantic crossing, the drama is gone. Lind bergh's great and simple epic was that he was the first to fly the Atlantic alone, the first to fly without stop from the U.S. to Europe...
Retired Judge Swan and two other distinguished alumni of CAA-2, Learned and Augustus Hand, first heard officially about Danaher's prospects from FBI agents who were checking Danaher's record. The three judges promptly rendered their opinion by joining 20 other leading New York, Connecticut and Vermont lawyers and ex-judges in a "memorandum" to Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Its thinly veiled message: an endorsement of Hincks and a veto for Danaher. Brownell sent back a noncommittal thanks for a "thoughtful analysis of the problem...
...Died. Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant Jr., 83, Manhattan millionaire, sole surviving direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever...
...centuries, dreamers as disparate In time and temperament as Rome's Emperor Augustus and Sweden's Author-Doctor Axel Munthe found Italy's idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away from it all. Augustus' misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island's solitude so inspiring that he often invited tedious friends out to the imperial villa for the weekend, only to push them off a cliff as soon as they arrived. The only thing Capri lacked was a supply of fresh water. Rain water, collected in cisterns, had to suffice Augustus...