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...deeper were Epstein's statues of women, usually half-figures, in which the sculptor uses the set of shoulders, the modeling of collarbone and breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped Isabel. His most recent was Elizabeth, and it showed Epstein at his peak: a silver head of a young woman with the air of one of Botticelli's beauties. "It is odd," mused the News Chronicle, "that the sculptor has suffered the odium of being called a modern...
...Died. Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...inland sea and a buffer state. The trouble was that Gordon's collecting interests quickly flagged, and whenever they did, his personality turned sour. At such times, he would stay slugabed all day, spitefully jolting the market by dumping or buying, and making life difficult for his wife Isabel...
...psychiatrist was stumped, but Isabel made a suggestion. Perhaps Gordon would enjoy collecting-people? Gordon thought it a marvelous idea, and his agents throughout the world quickly set to work...
...part-time job addressing envelopes. The lady writer proved to be an inconvenient wisecracker. And the diplomat brought his slinky, good-looking niece with him. Soon Gordon was neglecting his collection in favor of the diplomat's niece, while the other celebrities hung around uselessly, and Isabel frowned in wifely worry. But Isabel took the situation in hand, routed the slinky number, and persuaded the richest man in the world that what he really wanted was a cruise with his wife...