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When Biddle took his newly created post this month, he brought along his expertise as curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's American wing, and a patrician family's heritage. The Philadelphia Biddle clan's family seat-and James Biddle's boyhood home-is "Andalusia," the most celebrated example of Greek Revival architecture in the U.S. Off and flying, Biddle injected the national conscience into a battle over Hawaii's Diamond Head. Financier Chinn Ho's plan to develop apartments on the extinct volcano's seaward slope sparked an eruption...
...count on, and it has gone a long way toward making him appear to be the man who has everything. Family? Hard to top a steel-rich Phipps mother and a British father who was a polo-playing first cousin to Winston Churchill. Wife? None other than the patrician blonde "Ceezee," the former Lucy Cochrane of Boston (TIME cover, July 20, 1962), who, at 47, is one of the world's most elegant women. Hobbies? What's wrong with the Guests' Templeton Stables, whose thoroughbreds carry his and Ceezee's colors at tracks throughout...
...could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius XII in 1939 was named Archbishop of New York (he was made a cardinal...
...Nehru in 1958: "Old age seemed to have given him another face rather than merely wrinkling his features. In his voice, his poise, under the crust of the intellectual patrician, appeared the image-calm and gentle-of a man who no doubt from adolescence had educated himself to be a gentleman...
...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...