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After his father's death in 1950, Lobo moved his 10,000 volumes on Napoleon, his collection of Goyas and Gainsboroughs and his two daughters into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...
...portrait of Napoleon's fianc...
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES was one of the most dramatic of the old masters, and one of the most unpredictable. An artisan's son who lived during the bloody days of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, he grew up to be a darling of the court, though he often painted his benefactors to look like vain simpletons. When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond...
...Among the 61 Attorneys General who preceded Brownell were a grandfather of Robert A. Taft (Alphonso Taft, 1876-77), a grandnephew of Napoleon (Charles Joseph Bonaparte, 1906-09), and a great-uncle of Herbert Brownell. The great-uncle (on his mother's side) was William Henry Harrison Miller, an eminent Indiana lawyer. Miller was named for President William Henry Harrison (although he was no kin), then was the law partner, political adviser and Attorney General (1889-93) of William Henry's grandson, President Benjamin Harrison One of Miller's Cabinet mates was Secretary of State John...
Before Genghis, the Mongols had fought helter-skelter; he taught them the art of maneuver, of charging and wheeling in units. Like Napoleon, he promoted officers to top rank on their merits, regardless of family lineage. Instead of enslaving captives, as was Asiatic custom, he absorbed them into his fighting ranks. And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private...