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Showing that the link between his Administration and poetry amounts to more than a fleeting touch of Inauguration Day showmanship, John F. Kennedy appeared on TV last week in a tribute to Poet Robert Frost. "There is a story," said the President, "that some years ago an interested mother wrote...
Although the court noted that the Bureau of the Budget knew of Wenzell's dual role, it pointed out that this provided no exemption from the conflict-of-interest statute; Government officials cannot exempt underlings from the statute. "Wenzell's primary allegiance was to First Boston," said the...
The quiet, tree-lined town of Gilmanton, N.H. enjoyed a fleeting notoriety when Townswoman Grace Metalious renamed it Peyton Place. Behind Gilmanton's doors, Novelist Metalious found fictional murderers, abortionists and deviates. But somehow she overlooked Richard Pavlick, 73, a slight, white-haired postal clerk and onetime mental patient...
Painting with Bread. What seemed like claptrap was in fact a pioneering concern with light-the same concern that the impressionists were to share almost a generation later. While other artists began even the sketchiest watercolor with a painstaking drawing, Turner worked swiftly and directly with color. He might use...
Unlike the men around her, Berthe Morisot was not much interested in experiment. Though her paintings are bathed in sunlight, they do not attempt to dissect each ray, or aim at capturing the fleeting moment as Monet's do. Berthe painted a world of beaches, picnics, race tracks and...