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...scholars say, goes to the British aristocracy. Young lords and gentlemen who took the Grand Tour got the urge to make a visual record of what they saw, and it became a matter of pride to know how to draw. As early as 1622, Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman included drawing as an essential part of the aristocrat's education; later editions of the book contained a whole section on "Lantskip.'' The aristocratic amateurs produced no masterpieces of their own, but they set the stage for the watercolor's golden age that was soon...
Although Hindemith rarely gets a chance these days to play the role of Compleat Musician, he manages to keep briskly occupied. Since leaving the U.S., where he taught at Yale, he has lived with his wife in Switzerland ("We live in the mountains; where, is a military secret"). He teaches at the University of Zurich, retires from the world for five months each year to compose. Among the works proposed: an orchestral piece for the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Next summer he will conduct the Santa Fe Opera in three performances of his opera News...
...quite naturally, her protector. At first, Bill and his mistress stuck by their story-anyone, said Bill, might have an empty oil can in his car or a bunch of 7.65 shells hidden in his bathroom. But in the end, the evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew she could never pay the fine, so she had to die." Later, as he posed triumphantly for newsmen, swaggering Georges Rapin turned to his captors and said, "No hard feelings," and then congratulated...
...chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania to 82. Noah Webster did a new edition of his dictionary at 82, was busy on yet another when he died...
Astronaut. By next day, editors around the world had showered Moscow correspondents with their own rockets (correspondents' term for inquiries about competitors' stories). France-Soir and London's Daily Mail both ran Page One drawings of the compleat astronaut in space suit, breathing gear and seat belt. Said one query: "Like interview and first-person impressions." Demanded another: "Competition says it's woman, not man. Confirm...