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...marking Harvard milestones in this week's Commencement festivities. CHARLES E. MASON (center), secretary of the Class of 1905, is celebrating his 50th Reunion. His son, CHARLES E. MASON, Jr. (right), is a member of the 25th Reunion Class. And PETER MASON GUNDERSON, grandson of Mr. Mason, Sr. and nephew of Mr. Mason, Jr. is a senior...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: 1930's Final College Years: Talkies, Socialism, Prohibition | 6/14/1955 | See Source »

...Harvard officers help?" she asked hastily. "During the war, my nephew came home and parked his car in front of the curb by our boarding hall and when he came out the car was gone. A University officer told him it had been towed away. I asked the Cambridge police and they said that was entirely illegal...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: The Citizens Meet | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...resolute exile named Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, crossed the Rhine into Strasbourg one day in 1836 and waved one of his uncle's aigles (eagle standards) at the French garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nepotism | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso's niece Lolita explained. Added Nephew Juanin: "And the fuses always blow up." In the semidarkness, Rosamond Bernier saw a room cluttered with ancient furniture, presided over by Picasso's smiling sister, Doña Lola, wrapped in a sheet held together with safety pins, and flanked by two more Picasso nephews, both doctors. "Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Pablo | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...almonds from the butcher shop ("That's Spain. One buys bonbons at the butcher's," commented Picasso), a tissue paper filled with cotton seeds ("Just what we need here!"). Picasso glanced eagerly at the family photographs, turned the occasion into an old home week with his comments: Nephew Jaime-"He looks just like the Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment-"Why, they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Pablo | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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