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...Senate granted permanent sanctuary in the U.S. to Olga Masaryk Revilliod, 64-year-old daughter of Czechoslovakia's late great President Thomas Masaryk, and sister of the late martyred Jan Masaryk...
...snow-maned elders, Carl Milles, though a U.S. citizen, lives in Rome with his 81-year-old wife Olga. He still accepts new commissions and diligently puts in a six-hour day in his studio in the American Academy. "Great art has to be youthful . . . I am still a boy," he explains. One of Milles' latest undertakings is a large memorial group for Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. Recently, an inspection committee from the museum showed up to see the nearly finished work. "Why are there angels?" one asked. Replied Milles: "Don't you think God sends...
...Black Sea exile at Yalta (the doctors ordered him out of the Moscow climate), Chekhov yearned for Moscow as wistfully as any of the famed trio in The Three Sisters. At 41, he made his last pass at life by marrying the actress Olga Knipper. He called her his "kitten," "pup," "lamb," and "my little crocodile," but she was really something of a big-name hunter out to bag the half-dead lion of the Russian theater. They scarcely lived together, but she was with him on a trip through Germany in 1904 when the final TB attack came...
...what especially caught Rosamond Bernier's eye was the collection of nine oils painted by Picasso during a 1917 visit to Barcelona. It was an event the family is not likely to forget. Uncle Pablo rode into town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang...
Eventually he holes up in his flat, dreading Olga's knock, which one day comes, along with a final, heartbroken question: " 'Why has it all been ruined...