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...Family. Ever since Crosby S. Noyes. George W. Adams and Samuel Kauffmann bought the paper in 1867, its executive offices have been crammed with their relatives. Of the Star's eleven directors, ten are descendants of the three men, and when they met to elect "Newby" Noyes editor, they also chose two Kauffmanns as vice presidents, a third as secretary, and a fellow named Crosby Boyd, whose mother was a Noyes, as president. Office wags crack that in another couple of generations, the Star will need no outside help at all. But the Star needs all the help...
...mother and best election agent-to unveil the weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals sternly debated the question of whether Cinemactress Kim Novak can dance on the head of a pin. Reviewing her latest movie, Strangers When We Meet, Critic Stanley Kauffmann announced in the New Republic that Kim's diction struck him as an "unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because...
...KAUFFMANN-GRINSTEAD Hot Springs National Park...
...your March 1 Art section you referred to a painting of a woman's head "attributed to Joshua Reynolds . . . Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann." This is a very casual way of dismissing one of the only two women artists ever to become R.A.S. Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), though she may be thought to have had some shallowness of character, had depth in her work, and her great application to her craft was truly remarkable . . . There are . . . points of similarity in the styles of Reynolds and Kauffmann, who were very close friends...
...woman's head, attributed to Joshua Reynolds, valued by Cleghorn at $1,500. Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks that the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann...