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...sister Mary Ann, the maid of honor-down the steps from the Blue Room balcony and into the garden, where the President gave his daughter away before the small wrought-iron gazebo painted white. Her gown, by Priscilla of Boston, was an elegant white silk organdy. The all-lace bodice was molded to show her tiny waist and scalloped at the wide V neckline. Altogether, the gown was striking and sophisticated, a departure from the little-girl fashions for which Tricia has sometimes been criticized...
...picture has been out of sight, hidden away in a back room of Wildenstein's Manhattan gallery, the Met's chief restorer, Hubert von Sonnenburg, has wrought some minor miracles. He cleaned off the aging varnish, discovering a new richness of skin tones, transforming Juan's lace collar to a blazing white, and revealing the background as a rich orchestration of grays rather than the rather dim greenish cast it had had. More important, he found that a 1½ in. margin at the top and one of 2⅛ in. at the right side had been...
...Bailey a betrayed colleague named Blueskin Blake tried to cut the Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author Gerald Howson reckons it. The figures seem inflated; he reports, for instance, that the highest-priced whores of the time cost...
...Lenin has become a kind of Communist Christ, Walter Ulbricht, 77, is the self-appointed St. Peter. The oldest and most durable of the Soviet bloc party leaders, Ulbricht alone can lace his speeches with references to what he personally heard Lenin say, and he has used his disciple status to lecture the Soviets and East Europeans interminably on the need for political orthodoxy and extreme caution in dealing with the West. Last week Walter Ulbricht lost the bedrock of his power, the leadership of the East German Communist Party, which he helped found in 1946 and has headed since...
...books." Although macramé's pragmatic virtues are stressed in its latest incarnation, it retains its artistic values. New York's Museum of American Folk Art has just opened an exhibition of the more splendid examples. Among the items on display: an Inca hat, delicate macramé lace from 17th century Genoa, and fur rugs macraméd by Eskimos...