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More than a century had elapsed after the death of John Paul Jones before the U.S. naval hero's grave was discovered in Paris. By then the appearance of the remains could be tested for verisimilitude only by comparison with a portrait bust of 1781. But the proof was easy. Not only did the dead admiral resemble the sculpture, but the skull shape and measurements were almost identical. And that was not surprising: the marble Jones was sculpted by the deftest hand that touched stone during the 18th century in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon...
...design or accident, Valardel is breathing the first sobriety into a financial atmosphere that has never known much but get-rich-quick schemes, boom and bust. It has re-established underwriting as a service for Argentine corporations for the first time since Juan Perón squeezed private underwriters out of business 17 years ago. And from the standpoint of Argentine companies, the stock sales are an excellent hedge against future expropriation; the small investors who consider a company theirs constitute an effective vote bloc...
...Bang or Bust. Bill Cosby is a shy and studious young Negro comedian who went to Temple University, where he was a good student, a football halfback, and a multipurpose track athlete. He got his early experience in coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, where he used to tell race jokes, but now that he is booked into the big time (Chicago's Mister Kelly's, San Francisco's hungry i, Manhattan's Village Gate), he has decided to bang or bust as a general comedian rather than as a colorful colored man. He has worked...
William Orpen, and A. Wordsworth Thompson's Civil War battlescape, Cannonading on the Potomac. The Green Room's watered-silk walls support a gallery of 15 oils, including David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...
...entranced workers at Rakovica responded to all this by handing Khrushchev a present he must have long wanted and needed: a plaster bust of Lenin. Presumably none of Henry Ford was available...