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Last spring Mondrian's chief descendant in threads was engineering-trained Courrèges. This fall it is St. Laurent, who got the idea from a book of paintings that his mother gave to him. Of course, a St. Laurent original of a copied Mondrian costs $800; the highest...
Last week the hormone's peculiar potency was illustrated in two places half the world apart. New Zealand Housewife Shirley Ann Lawson-a descendant of Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian-gave birth to four girls and a boy in Auckland's National Women's Hospital. Only two days...
Three-Way Love Affair. Born in the Loire Valley near Orléans, Gaudier was a descendant of masons and stone carvers who had worked on the Chartres Cathedral. He began drawing in early childhood, did so brilliantly that at 14 he won a scholarship to London. Two years later...
* On each board, replacements are mostly elected by the members themselves, but some positions are filled by alumni ballot. Cornell's 49 trustees also include one picked by the New York State Grange and the eldest linear male descendant of Ezra Cornell.
Scorning a Script. Descendant of an aristocratic German family, Hans von Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, left home and school at 14 because he thirsted for "information of the world." He joined the Brooklyn Eagle in 1902, but after a few years of reporting, he decided he needed a formal...