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...shocked, incredulous, hat-tearing letters to the editor. Once a New Orleans Jack-of-all-journalism, the late Lafcadio, master of delicate lyrical prose, had won his greatest fame as a writer on Japan. He had become a Japanese citizen, taken the name Yakumo Koizumi and a Japanese wife, begot three sons and a daughter. More than one letter last week suggested that his sons might now be killing American soldiers.* People got so excited because the Maritime Commission named a New Orleans-built Liberty ship the Lafcadio Hearn...
...Johann Sebastian Bach, who left behind him a musical reputation second only to that of Ludwig van Beethoven. But Johann Sebastian was only one of many talented Bachs who furnished Germany with music for seven generations. Himself the culmination of a long line of Bachs, the great Johann Sebastian begot 20 children, three of whom became composers of world renown: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
...Sodality can also claim more orderly achievements. Its prolonged agitation for a chair of music at Harvard was instrumental in founding the University's music department. The Sodality begot the Harvard Glee Club. In 1837 a group of its graduate members formed the Harvard Musical Association, which gave Boston its first regular symphony concerts, and gave Major Henry Lee Higginson the idea of founding the Boston Symphony...
Marked symptoms of Old School Stuffiness in the service have recently begot the quip that "if the Foreign Office says so, you can be sure it's wrong." Last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden joined the British Army in publicly admitting that criteria built around The Old School Tie are so narrow as to keep out many of the best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...