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Married. Lotte Lenya, 64, widow and singing disciple of Composer Kurt (The Threepenny Opera] Weill; and Russell Detwiler, 37, a plump U.S. impressionist painter; she for the third time; in London's Caxton Hall Registry Office. Said tawny-haired Lotte: "When you are really in love, age just becomes something written in your passport...
Since the middle of the 17th century, this illustrated Latin manuscript of the four Gospels has lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time...
Kraus further illustrated the high price of ancient manuscripts by plunking down $64,000 on the same day for an old (1480) French-English text, a first edition issued by William Caxton, England's first printer. The British Museum is already nibbling for the Caxton book, but Kraus intends to bring the map "home" to the U.S., hopes to sell it to the Library of Congress, "so Americans can see where their land was named...
Paying a formal visit to Buckingham Palace, the registrar at London's Caxton Hall entered into his rolls the name...
...After that, he plans to return to the Arthurian cycle. It is no mere escapism that drives him back, but what a friend calls "his dedication to the cause of gentleness." Facing 20th century life, Terence Hanbury White finds himself, more than ever, agreeing with Malory's publisher Caxton on the virtues that might redeem the time: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse, humanyte, frendlynesse, hardynesse, love...