Word: hugh
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DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
...variety of tactics. Many financiers are pushing for new state laws designed to block the entrance of big-city banks into their territory. Powerful regional institutions like NCNB Corp. ($19 billion) of Charlotte, N.C., are urging legislatures to create cooperative multistate banking as an alternative to national banking. Says Hugh McColl, chairman of NCNB...
...Hugh Amory, an associate curator of the Houghton Library collection, calls the first Bible printed in Cambridge, Mass. in 1663 "an impressive little volume" because it was the first to be worded in an exotic Indian tongue. Amory also finds an 1827 book of colorful life size paintings by ornithologist and painter John J. Audubun "just spectacular...
Houghton Library, the granddaddy of Harvard's rare book libraries, contains one of the world's most extensive collections--over 450,000 volumes. According to Hugh Amory '52, a curator at Houghton, the library collects any book printed before 1601, English books before 1701, and North American books printed prior...
...American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage. Nobody believes this today. In fact, the pendulum has gone so far in the other direction that a sea piece by any Boston dauber distantly connectable to Fitz Hugh Lane will command a price that not so long ago would have seemed too much for Turner. No vignette, however treacly, of apple-cheeked infants at the log schoolhouse or hirsute pioneers skinning the raccoon eludes the general resurrection. No grave of a deservedly buried name remains undug...