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...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...
...been passed in Pennsylvania. With McDonald's wages halted, the family looked for means of support. Mary McDonald took in washing and baked bread. David and his younger brother Joseph delivered papers. No matter how low their funds got, Mary McDonald insisted they remember one thing: they were lace-curtain Irish, not shanty Irish. Accordingly, she sent the boys off to St. Stephen's parochial school to get all the education they could. Their clothes were patched but clean. At St. Stephen's, David was a top student in his class. He sang soprano in the boys...
...classic example of the Puritan limner's art. Typically, seven-year-old Margaret meets the eye not like a real girl in a real world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted hair, silver necklace, lace, drawstrings and bows are presented distinctly. But it would be hard to guess how Margaret looked from the side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb as well as typical limning...
...Grand Kremlin Palace, surrounded by grinning, handshaking Russian bureaucrats and bemedaled officers of the Kremlin guard in gold-braided green uniforms. Tito contrived to look unimpressed. His handsome, dark-skinned wife Jovanka outshone the dowdy official Russian wives with her wardrobe of elegant evening gowns of white silk, black lace over bronze-red, her red stole, gold mesh bag and rubies, and her day suits of pink brocade and lavender silk. At the ballet Tito looked bored...
...musical stage because it depends on so many people (but he yet may write an opera), and his orchestral works take too many rehearsals to be much performed. Nevertheless, he has no inclination to write for quick success. As the only son of a well-to-do Manhattan lace importer, he inherited an income, and, in addition, he has made a pleasant discovery: "The music I like to write turns out to be the most popular anyway...