Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The career of a genteel rotter not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a reissue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME...
...worst problem was Henry VII, whose nose was gone for good. Howgrave-Graham modeled a new one after a bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum and made Henry VII look like a king again. He patched the top of Edward Ill's head. He sat up all night with Catherine of Valois (queen of Henry V), massaging her for eleven hours with a cellulose solution. "I'm sure she'll be all right now," says Howgrave-Graham. "It would be terribly ungrateful of her if she weren...
During these attentions, which took two years, Howgrave-Graham watched for royal specimens to send to appropriate laboratories. Samples of hair teased out of the plaster went to Scotland Yard, which certified all except one as human...
...well-known death mask of Dante (d. 1321) may be a fake. When Edward III was in his last illness, his mistress, Alice Ferrers, ran off with the rings from his fingers. The shock of this betrayal brought on the stroke that finished him off. Neurologists consulted by Howgrave-Graham agreed that his mask shows telltale signs of facial paralysis...
...effigies, including the solemn James I (of the King James Version), are too far gone for restoration. The rest are now in presentable, even beautiful shape. Lying side by side in a double glass case are Edward III and Catherine of Valois. She was not his queen, but Howgrave-Graham rather approves their effigied intimacy. Nearby is Elizabeth of York, who has recently acquired a red-gold wig and a bodice trimmed with imitation ermine. One of the canons of Westminster Abbey says that he has fallen in love with...