Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Life & Loves was a prime piece of erotica in intellectual and academic circles. After all, it was not merely dirty. Harris was a literary figure, an editor of some stature in late-Victorian London, a familiar of such wits as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw. Between beds, his book is studded with "As I said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could...
When Mrs. Gardner began a formal collection, she approached the project with characteristic energy. Bernard Berenson, whom she had helped while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, supervised acquisitions--but Mrs. Gardner made many important decisions herself. Considering Venice her second home, she carefully planned the details of her own Venetian palace. She revised the architect's plans for the foundation. She supervised the workmen--who had been specially imported from Italy for the project. (In fact, the walls of the court are not really pink marble: Mrs. Gardner's attempt to correct the painters produced that effect...
Nowadays it is a rare occasion that brings Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 93, out for a black-tie evening, but he wanted the pleasure of presenting the President's Citation of the People-to-People Sports Committee to "a little girl" he used to know. She was Joan Whitney Payson, 60, co-owner of Greentree Stable and fairy grandmother of the New York Mets baseball team. The first woman recipient of the Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped...
Furled Pickets. The architect of this improbable journalistic edifice is a onetime jeweler who invaded Dover for the simple reason that it was there and waiting. Until 1953, Bernard John Smyth's horizon did not extend beyond Renovo, Pa. There, after selling his share of the family jewelry store, he bought the Renovo Daily Record. Then some friend told him about Dover. Smyth froze like a pointer. If Renovo could support a daily with 3,000 inhabitants, why couldn't Dover, with 7,000 residents and a thriving girdle factory...
...BERNARD GREBANIER Eze Village, France...