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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Background. The affair between King Freddie and his sister-in-law has been an open secret in both London and Kampala. While the queen has drifted farther and farther into the background, unmarried sister Sarah has been getting a larger and larger share of the royal attention, now lives in the palace along with her two sons. King Freddie says frankly that they are his. He is less outspoken about Queen Damali's son, who was born in Kampala just nine months after the queen visited him in his London exile. The attending doctor declared that...
...theory that the sun never sets on Harvard alumni-abroad on the armed forces radio network. Radio Luxembourg, the Voice of America, and various outlets in the Orient. But the nation's wealthiest educational institution was addressing an audience far larger than its own alumni. Manhattan Banker Alexander White, head Harvard fund raiser, stated the issue clearly: "Every American college is in serious financial trouble. Harvard is best off of all the colleges and Harvard is badly off. It is for you to decide-and then give to the college of your choice...
...were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation...
...Dyck himself seems to have been aware of these defects. When Rubens so admired the Betrayal that he asked Van Dyck to make a larger version, Van Dyck repositioned Malchus and remolded Judas' cloak. The results so pleased Philip IV of Spain that, after Rubens' death, he purchased the version, which today hangs in Madrid's Prado Museum...
...Author Taylor's carefully researched Western history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when, at journey's end, Jaimie is a boy no longer, having discovered what it is men see in women: they "look somehow larger undressed than dressed, both forward and rear...