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...singer and guitar player who performed for Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their awe of bustling Washington. Proficient in French, she even accompanied her wards to the dentist...
...exhibition of 82 paintings proved that the Belgian-born artist has lost none of his wizardry. Loaves of bread fly in formation beyond a stone embrasure in The Golden Legend; an immense rock floats weightless in The Glass Key; in Blank Signature, a fine lady upon a chestnut horse rides mysteriously through an enchanted forest, passing before and beyond a landscape painted magically as if on a vertical Venetian blind...
...Kennedy of Wigglesworth Hall and Lexington; Frank L. McNamara Jr. of Matthews Hall and Concord: Donald W. Meaders of Pennypacker Hall and West Allis, Wis.: Joseph W. Mullin of Holworthy Hall and Maynard; Andrew J. Rudnick of Weld Hall and New York; Sumner A. Slavin of Thayer and Chestnut Hill; Jerome T. Walker of Holworthy and McKeasport, Penn.: Paul J. Zofnass of Hurlbut and Belmont...
...barn. The first product of their union was Ridan, a huge colt who won $635,074 before he was retired to stud in 1963. Next came Lt. Stevens, who is still racing as a four-year-old and has won $240,949. Then there is Moccasin. A strapping chestnut filly, Moccasin is two years old, and has been to the post seven times. She has won all seven races, by a total margin of 48½ lengths...
...mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...