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Died. Douglas Chandor, 55, wealthy portraitist of the high-ranked and highborn; of a cerebral hemorrhage in Weatherford, Texas. British-born Artist Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others...
Winston Churchill's likeness* by Douglas Chandor, well-heeled portrayer of the well-heeled; brought probably the highest U.S. price ever paid for a contemporary portrait: $25,000. The buyer: Bernard Baruch, who planned to keep it a while, then decide what museum should have...
...Single Joke. Harry Truman's week went unrelieved by fun. He got in four afternoon sessions of exercising and splashing in the pool. He got away from the White House only once-to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Artist Douglas Grahville Chandor, where he admired the almost completed portrait of Citizen Churchill...
Engaged. Alice Brisbane, 20, daughter of late famed Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane; and Army Air Forces Lieut. Elbert Haring Chandor, 23, Manhattan Social Registerite, Princeton...
...which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time Headmistress Chandor died last autumn Spence was again heading up. To carry on the good work the trustees last week picked as her successor and the school's fifth headmistress Miss Dorothy Brockway. Pretty, young (37), brunette Dorothy Brockway...