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...generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said, the loveliest...
...Maud Gonne's talents and beauty were not for the drawing rooms of Dublin and the salons of Mayfair. One midwinter night, after a fashionable ball in Ireland's midcountry, Maud had seen an Irish peasant woman and her children flung out of their home by a landlord. Her gay companions shuddered and forgot. But from that time on, Maud Gonne devoted her life to Ireland's independence...
...ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering in the mysterious chemistry of life...
Bridling at the censorship, the Workshop cited historical precedent in Maud Adams 1911 "Lady Godiva" jaunt through Harvard Yard, and trotted out plans for construction of a hay-lined dressing room...
...Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...