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...attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon be outdated. His main problem is what to do with yesterday's "moderns." He doesn't want the Tate to be cluttered up with them. Rothenstein's fond hope: that some of his modern paintings will eventually be good enough to crash the National Gallery, as Sir Henry Tate's original collection...
Triumph. To the Latter-day Saints, who once expected the nations of the earth to rally unto them, and who are still fond of calling themselves "a peculiar people," these tangible triumphs constitute only a partial fulfillment of destiny. But, considered coldly, they seem almost incredible...
...fond parent, he is making a place for his two sons. When John Dabney, 25, who finished Yale last month, showed interest in publishing, Murchison bought into Henry Holt, made John Dabney a director. For John Dabney and Clint Jr., 23, who graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, Murchison also bought two insurance companies...
...Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind of a family are you getting mixed up with...
...Easy, To explain how the President could have "ead Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great...