Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit of historic counterpanes at New Jersey's Newark Museum (see opposite page), the very nature of quilting, whether applique or piecework, required fancy sewing, such as feather, catch, cross-and kensington stitching, that few seamstresses know today...
Winners of the other seven prizes, given by the Bicycle Exchange, were: Harlem Himel '66 of Lowell House and Kensington, Md.; James G. Sise '67 of Wigglesworth Hall and Brookline; Richard R. Ring of Pittsfield; and William J. Underwood, Jr. '67 of Matthews Hall and South Dartmouth...
...shoe salesman in the big London store where his father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns...
...that widespread clucking was confirmed when Kensington Palace announced that Princess Margaret, 33, is indeed expecting her second child next year. That means, if everything goes well, that there will be a royal baby a month-starting in February with Princess Alexandra, followed by Queen Elizabeth in early March, Meg in late April and the Duchess of Kent...
...self-taught artist and a loner among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. It was the largest one-man show in the U.S. for a living British painter within the century...