Word: patricianism
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Ever the perfect patrician, Peru's President Manuel Prado, 72, descended the planeside steps at Washington's MATS terminal one day last week with the sure and jaunty gait of a boulevardier revisiting a familiar haunt. He gripped President Kennedy's hand, bowed with gallant grace to kiss the gloved hand of Madame la Présidente, Jacqueline. So taken was Jackie that she nearly forgot to present the roses she was carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around...
Ghettos & Genius. For all his aura of patrician wellbeing. Douglas Dillon is only two generations removed from the ghettos of Poland, where Samuel Lapowski. his paternal grandfather, was born. Migrating to Texas after the Civil War. Lapowski set up shop as a clothier, first in San Antonio and later in Abilene, took his mother's maiden name of Dillon, prospered enough to send his only son Clarence to Harvard. Shrewd, smart and blessed with a good poker player's sense of timing, Clarence ("Baron") Dillon was the only boy in his class...
Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg...
...patrician Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., the class of 1914 had no trouble picking the Man Most Likely to Succeed. He was bright, moonfaced James Phinney Baxter III, pride of a leading Maine family.* Armed with summa and Phi Beta Kappa key. Valedictorian Baxter headed for Wall Street riches. A brush with TB soon turned him to teaching; but the class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most...
...rather than beautiful and, from her letters, commonsensical rather than brilliant; she certainly had none of the literary sex appeal that marked her contemporaries, Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël. She was nevertheless remarkable for her courage and dogged devotion to her husband; as a patrician and a thoroughly unemancipated woman, she never felt released either from wifely duty or wifely affection simply because her husband was a confirmed philanderer. In fact, as Biographer Maurois tells it, in a somewhat simpering, grandfatherly style, Adrienne was so relentlessly virtuous that it sometimes seems as if La Fayette...