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Short, rotund Professor Paul Joseph Sachs, a present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Victorian Surrealists | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Spectacular Serge. By far the most spectacular collaborationist in Parisian musical circles was the famed Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of the Wehrmacht's more sybaritic officer set; he crowed publicly over each new feat of German arms. Up to last week, the F.F.I, had been unable to find Serge Lifar. He was in hiding, periodically telephoning his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: La Musique et la Politique | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...calm center of all this commerce is a small, dapper, pink-cheeked inheritor of the great Polish piano traditions. He can toss off a gesture with the aplomb of a Vladimir de Pachmann. (When his Manhattan visit last week was attended by a heavy snowstorm Rubinstein looked out his hotel window and shrugged. "The weather," said he, "has no effect upon me. I impose my personality upon the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peregrinating Pole | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Wilbur Joseph Cash was born in South Carolina in 1901, went to Southern schools and colleges, became a newspaperman, contributed to Mencken's old American Mercury, is now associate editor of the Charlotte, N. C. News. He is a Democrat, a Baptist, an inheritor of the South's tradition. The Mind of the South, his first published book, is in effect a psychoanalysis of his own native land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychoanalysis of a Nation | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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