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SYLVIA WATSON GIESE Clarksburg...
Died. Louis J. Caldor, 73, the art collector who discovered one of America's most popular primitive artists, the late Grandma Moses; near Clarksburg, Md. In 1938, Caldor, an engineer by profession, noticed some of her paintings among the jellies and doilies in a country drugstore window in upstate New York. He bought them all at an average price of $4 apiece. Two years later he helped the 80-year-old widow arrange for the first one-woman showing of her rural scenes in a Manhattan art gallery-paintings which eventually sold for as much...
...THOMAS CARPENTER Clarksburg...
...Born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Vance attended Connecticut's Kent School, then studied economics at Yale, where his tall, lanky frame suggested his nickname: Spider. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1942, he joined the Navy, served on destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II. In 1947 he joined a Manhattan law firm...
Soprano Curtin began singing seriously only in her junior year in college. As a child back in Clarksburg, W. Va.. she studied violin, majored in political science at Wellesley, during the war got a job as an electrical engineer with the War Production Board ("I didn't know a wall plug from a telephone pole"). Married to a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin (she has since married Editor-Photographer Eugene Cook), she accompanied her husband on archaeological expeditions to Peru and Ecuador. But she kept on taking voice lessons once a week, gave several recitals...