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...from the gallows when his pardon arrives; for William Chisholm. the young husband who died for Prince Charlie in 1746. There are also work songs. Gentle Lady is sung to the rhythmic accompaniment of milk squirting into a pail. It would be hard for any cow to resist Kate Nicholson crooning: "Ruddy-faced and smooth-cheeked, gentle lady, you are my dear one. The calves have sucked, O gentle lady." The real thing by real folk, collected and selected by Alan Lomax and two Scottish experts...
...color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
...Goldwater country, Rockefeller's statement drew a fusillade of angry or contemptuous retorts. Snapped Henry Stollenwerck, Republican member of the Texas state legislature: "it sounds like a frantic statement from a man who has lost and knows it." Growled a Denver Republican leader, E. D. Nicholson: "Rockefeller is dead." To Mississippi's Wirt A. Yerger Jr., G.O.P. state chairman, the statement appeared to be "the scream of a drowning man going down for the third time...
...sold rare books in Vienna. They have not only built up a vast trade in modern old masters, but have also captured some of the biggest stars of the English art world. Sculptor Henry Moore has joined them. Francis Bacon left the Hanover Gallery; Sidney Nolan quit Matthiesen; Ben Nicholson, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick came from Gimpel Fils. Marlborough takes on almost nobody not already famous, and it guarantees fat annual income plus fringe benefits-for example, a free secretarial service...
...violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot out so skillfully is Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, who calls the tune for the $293 million Hilton Hotel chain. Hilton has adopted the obscure Varsoviana as a ceremonial dance of good luck with which to open each of his new hotels-and lately he has been dancing more frequently than ever before in his 44-year career...