Word: duren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Kate ("Klondike Kate") Rockwell Matson, 68, onetime "Belle of the Yukon," famed dance-hall favorite of gold-rush days; and William L. Van Duren, an accountant and friend of 19 years' standing; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vancouver, Wash...
...Bankers Trust Co.; and Anne Weld Crawford McLane, 35, daughter of the late Edward Weld, onetime New York Cotton Exchange president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Arlington, Va., four days after a Reno divorce ended his 28-year marriage to Margaret Van Duren Mason Colt...
...much for Artist Nichols. Said he: "Some of these paintings disturb me. In Art Heritage I suspect that Mr. Duren is looking with a critical eye upon my Nebraska friends and neighbors. If [he] is ashamed or bored or scornful [of Nebraska life], may I clarify his erroneous thinking...
Nichols further ventured that Duren should paint in a spirit which regards manure not as horrible filth but as a farmer's God-given instrument. Countered Duren: "I refer to [manure] but seldom. ... I regard it as neither horrific nor as beautiful but merely as unimportant detail. Obviously Mr. Nichols finds it appealing...
Fellow-townsmen took sides. Little Shelby accused bigger David City (pop. 2,272) of stealing Duren's thunder with the Nichols show. The artists themselves took up prepared positions behind cornstalks, and blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...