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...memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans. For $2,000,000, which his father helped him pay, Tommy last week bought the New Orleans Item from Publisher Ralph Nicholson...
...Wreath of Roses is not the "perfect novel" that she has confessed she would like to write, but it contains three extremely well-drawn characters: two young women and a baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous...
...Nicholson looks rather like a smaller and more delicate Picasso-as does some of his work. He lives with his wife, Sculptor Barbara Hepworth, in a grey, gabled house on the Cornish coast, and does his painting in a small, tidy studio upstairs...
...meticulous portrait painter,* Nicholson spent his art-student days "mostly playing billiards," which might possibly have stimulated his liking for abstract forms in space. He turned to abstraction bit by bit, still can't explain how it happened. Said he: "It's like a child learning to walk. By the time you've reached the 50th step you can't describe the different stages...
...With a very British sense of humor. When a distinguished bore came to lunch and was in full drone, Sir William Nicholson would give a signal, whereupon the whole family would jump up, dash madly around the table, and plump down again in their seats as if nothing had happened...