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...bold. Be bold. Be not too bold." Another, often repeated, writes Thurman, was that the final word as to what you are really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya. Coffee growing, the young groom announced, was the only thing that had any future. He had wholly discounted his wife's genius...
...farm and the marriage rapidly deteriorated. In 1914, Bror, a notorious womanizer, infected Karen with syphilis. In the future it would affect her spine and cause her incalculable agonies. Initially, though, it was sexual jealousy that provided the sorrow. After the divorce, there seemed little to hold the baroness in Africa-except Denys Finch Hatton. A romantic British figure out of a silent movie, he was a World War I veteran, pilot, expatriate and gentleman farmer. She became pregnant by him and miscarried. Four years later the lovers quarreled ferociously. A few days afterward, Denys died in a plane accident...
...BROR A. W. JONZON Vancouver, Canada
...strongholds, the community of Jukkasjarvi far above the Arctic Circle, Laplanders gathered to celebrate the 350th anniversary of their 17th century wooden church. The main event was the unveiling of a new altarpiece, commissioned six years ago by the local mining company and carved by 64-year-old Bror Hjorth (pronounced yoort), Sweden's foremost and most controversial sculptor...
Born the son of an Uppland (eastern Sweden) forester, Bror Hjorth early decided to become an artist, had barely begun when he developed tuberculosis, spent six months in a sanatorium, followed by four years of convalescence. "Those were the most valuable years," says Hjorth. "I began thinking and experiencing nature.'' Finally cured. Hjorth switched to sculpture, went to Paris to study with Rodin's famed pupil. Antoine Bourdelle dabbled in cubism, finally found his artistic forefather in Paul Gauguin...