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State Representative E. W. Gravelot Jr., one of the Roman Catholic backers of the proposed segregation bill, promptly announced the "we intend to go ahead with it, certainly." Governor-nominee Earl Long (a Baptist) said that he felt that the archbishop was "a little too advanced." Nevertheless, he added, "from a religious standpoint, he is undoubtedly right." The archbishop was undoubtedly also going to have...
Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
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