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Before sunset the first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote...
...unique publishing venture in many ways. It brings high-quality books at low cost to large numbers of readers. The books are sold almost exclusively by mail order. Response by both reader and critic has been warm. Of the first volume in the Library of Art series, Artist Rockwell Kent said: "It would be hard for me to overstate my delight in The World of Michelangelo - not merely for its superb reproductions of the master's work but for the textual and pictorial presentation." The Great Ages of Man series, wrote the Los Angeles Times, "demonstrates the imposing possibilities...
...struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member of the British Commonwealth...
Worst of Both Worlds. Last March the Supreme Court gave warning of its attitude in a decision that applied only to the District of Columbia. Accused of rape, robbery and housebreaking, Morris A. Kent Jr., 16, had been under the "exclusive jurisdiction" of Washington's Juvenile Court Judge Orman W. Ketcham. Instead, the boy was tried as an adult, given a 30-to-90-year sentence. The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Ketcham had wrongly "waived" jurisdiction without giving Kent counsel, hearing or explanation...
Federal patronage hardly produced a renaissance in painting. But as murals turned up in post offices in Anadarko, Okla., Corning, Iowa, or Hartselle, Ala., a nation woke up to art. During the period, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh and Grant Wood became popular favorites. In their shadow, other figures such as Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorky and Willem deKooning were learning and living under the same program. For the first time in U.S. history, the artist was not only officially recognized, but also Government approved...