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Although the Alba family of Spain denies it to this day, most of the experts are convinced that Francisco Goya had a love affair with the duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). From Rossini to Romberg, with Rise Stevens, Heidi Krall, Brian Sullivan, Jerome Hines and the Akron Symphony Orchestra-a sentimental journey for all those who mourn the Voice's imminent silencing...
Perhaps the State Department was too much "under the Secretary's hat," perhaps we will not mourn the absence of "brinkmanship" and "massive retaliation." Nonetheless, Mr. Dulles' forceful leadership and unyielding moral strength are an inheritance future statesmen can be proud...
...Nenana lottery started in 1917, when railway workers got up a $600 pool, won by a man who guessed that the ice would break up at 11:30 a.m. on April 30, still a favorite date among pool guessers. Not since that first year, mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery...
Last Saturday night, Booth attended a Broadway play with his wife. Later in the evening, he collapsed and was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Early Sunday morning Albie Booth, age 51, died of a heart attack, and the entire world of sports was left to mourn its loss...