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Major William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid Lennox has never bought a work of art in his life; yet he owns one of England's more romantic collections. He inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says...
Commuter. In Portland, England, Escaped Convict Edmund G. Downton gave himself away when he asked a station attendant at what hour the next train might be leaving for Weymouth, learned that the last one had left six years...
...Bartholomew, one of the more obscure of the apostles, is also subject to historical confusion. The symbolic knife he holds derives from the story that he was flayed alive in Armenia. Out of ignorance of this tradition, one of Rembrandt's own later versions now in Downton Castle, near Ludlow, England, was long titled Rembrandt's Cook...
...ease their burning necks, ten members of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 QUINCY Radall, Tighe, g. g., Bonam Stent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Shearer, Galberg Skinner, l.f.g. r.f.b., 191 Loretto Johnson, r.h.b. l.h.b., Andersom, Morrison Carley, Roosevelt, c.h.b. c.h.b., Quinn Kellog, Carley, Jeffreys, l.h.b. r.h.b., Littlewood L. Perry Dawson, r.e. l.e., Downton Dorman r.l. l.l.,J. MacGuire, Garacille Manhetmer, c.f. c.f., A. MacGuire Willetts, l.l. r.l., Robertson, King Vincent, l.e. r.o., MacGibbon...
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