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...portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent by William Goldman...
...Christmas Day 1872, childless Johns Hopkins contemplated the end of his life and the division of his wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he addressed an imperious letter to twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into...
Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...
...comfortable little house called The Twigs, which belonged to a Mrs. Skrine. Mrs. Skrine also had a Cook-General, a button-nosed treasure of an orphan girl named Edith Saville who was excellent at making jam and bottling fruits. Mrs. Skrine moved away from Cookham Dean, and lent Edith the General to Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Frederick Churchill Sim who lived 100 yards down the road in a house called Old Barton. Later Mrs. Skrine sold The Twigs to a Mr. & Mrs. Stretch, who promptly renamed it Applewood. Under any name Edith the General wanted to go back...
...irrevocably to the Society and vice versa. The Madames wear black, with a bonnet-like headdress framing the face in stiff white ruching. Semi-cloistered, they invariably live in large and comfortable convents, give a cup of tea to visiting bishops, Jesuits, papas and mammas, except during Lent...