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...last year at Yale when, as swimming captain, he had been called upon to show her the campus. An encouraging correspondence developed. But Wendy Marshall, 21-whose husband John Birnie Marshall broke 28 world records swimming "for God, my country, and Yale" and died in an auto crash near Ballarat after fathering her child, John Jr.-turned aside Taft's proposal with a gentle no. Peter said he would go on to Europe, study public affairs at Paris' Institute of Political Studies. Said Wendy Marshall: "At the moment, Peter is really a professional schoolboy. However, I am planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Probably an abler artist than Peggy Bacon is William Henry Dyson of England who hung more of his brilliantly bitten etchings at the Ferargil Galleries last week. Grey-haired, slender and 48. he was born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Satirists | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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