Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmund Castell Bacon's stately English home, Raveningham Hall, in Norwich, for as long as anyone could remember, one painting, St. Jerome in Penitence Before a Crucifix, attributed to Giovanni Francesco Caroto, a minor Veronese painter, had hung in the library. Sir Edmund liked it so well he moved it to his bedroom, away from the rest of the fine collection of Gains-boroughs, Reynolds, Turners and 17th century Dutch painters. "I often paused on my way to bed to admire it," recalls Sir Edmund. "I always regarded it as a most beautiful picture...
...Invited down to tea to examine the painting at first hand, Art Dealer Carritt was certain. Other experts were called in, agreed. The painting, which proved to be in almost perfect condition, was estimated to be worth $560,000. Asked if he intended to sell, Sir Edmund, possessor not only of a Dürer but of a title (Baronet of Redgrave) that goes back to the first Elizabeth, snapped, "Definitely not. We are letting far too many of this sort of thing leave the country...
Calm v. Passion. Arthur Winner marries again. Clarissa is tall, athletic and thirtyish, an avid latecomer to the art of love. The hour of that art which the couple share in Cozzens' pages has not been paralleled for clinical candor in U.S. fiction since Edmund Wilson singed the censors with Memoirs of Hecate County. Yet Lawyer Winner has a more demanding love-the law. The law is his passion precisely because it rules out passion. He is comforted by its seductive repose, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions or enthusiasms of emotion...
...EDMUND N. BACON Executive Director City Planning Commission of Philadelphia...
...Maine's Governor Edmund Muskie...