Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures of themselves in lace and ruffles to send home to England or to hang in their own parlors as proof of success. They cared more for the lace than for the likeness. Portraiture, wrote James Thomas Flexner in a history of colonial painting (First Flowers of Our Wilderness, Houghton Mifflin; $10) out last week, became "a profession before any other American...
LETTER FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE (279 pp.)-John Gilbert Winant-Houghton Mifflin...
After his retirement, ten months ago, Winant went back to his house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...
...KNEW IT (425 pp.)-General George S. Patton Jr.-Houghton Mifflin...
Adolfo Salazar will speak on Spanish movies set in Cervantes era at 8 o'clock next Friday in the Exhibition Room of Houghton Library. A small choral group will illustrate the lecture by singing a series of ballads as they appear in Cervantes works. The talk will be in Spanish...