Word: bouviers
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...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...
...good manners which is the mark of the noblest American womanhood." Miss Porter's confers those qualities to this day, and it slipped out last week that the school has an application on file for 1972 or so from the first young lady of the land, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
There was never much doubt that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a onetime Sorbonne art student, would turn out to be the most art-conscious of all First Ladies, but her ideas about what belonged in a "period house" have proved intriguing. Last week, with the announcement that she had borrowed eleven paintings by five U.S. artists from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, her collection numbered 63 items, mostly hung in the President's office or in the family quarters. Lest she be accused of depriving the public of its treasures, she had accepted only canvases in museum storerooms...
...accent was American; only a handful of artists-notably Delacroix, Courbet and Renoir-were foreigners, and almost all came from Bouvier-land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...