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...surprised and delighted with his new home, relishes its bouncy, athletic regimen of icy morning baths and horseback rides. Gerald feels the boy a warm addition to his bachelor loneliness. But the novel's tone darkens, as if a psychic poison were seeping into both uncle and nephew...
...nephew of Serge Koussevitzky, Fabien dropped the "Kous" from his name when he came to the U.S. in 1923 so as not to trade on his uncle's reputation...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
Presentation to Moors Hall of a painting of Maria Buckminster, great-grand -mother of Moors, was announced by President Jordan. Donor of the painting was Thomas D. Cabot '19, nephew of Moors and a Radcliffe trustee...
Lowell only put 16,000 miles on the speedometer. The next owner was Peter B. Seamans '46, who was the brother-in-law of Augustus L. Putnam '49, great-nephew to the president and one of Post's roomates. The automobile, purchased from Lowell's estate after his death, was a wedding-gift to Seamans...