Word: hough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posed for the Editor was Benton's Vineyard buddy, 78-year-old George Anthony Hough, whose son Henry runs the Vineyard Gazette and wrote a best-seller about it (Country Editor...
Benton had been wanting to paint salty, sociable old ex-Editor Hough for quite a while, he said, "but I figured I'd have to lead him up to it gradually. We were having some bourbon and cistern water at his place when I told him, 'By God, I'm going to paint your picture.' We had a good time at it. After we were finished for the day we'd have a drink and then I'd take him home and we'd have another drink...
...museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...
MISTER ROBERTS (221 pp.)-Thomas Heggen-Hough+on Mlfflin...
Romeyn Beck Hough...