Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary McCarthy. Vassar's cleverest alumna tells all about eight girls who might have graduated with her into the confused Depression world of New York in the '30s. Though it is brilliantly fictionalized sociology of a sad period, Vassar may think of it as a class portrait by Charles Addams...
Caskets are now "styled" with an eye to customer appeal. Very strong now in casket styles, Miss Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted...
...Portrait (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Sean Lemass, Prime Minister of Ireland, interviewed in his Dublin office...
...Wordsworth Thompson's Civil War battlescape, Cannonading on the Potomac. The Green Room's watered-silk walls support a gallery of 15 oils, including David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...
...prize acquisition of all is the Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson, formerly in Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Another highly valuable addition is the Monroe portrait attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the telegraph. An Andrew Jackson by John Wesley Jarvis, done in 1819, was acquired to supplement Ralph Earl's Jackson, which Teddy Roosevelt's youngest son and playmates lambasted with spitballs one afternoon. The Blue Room portraits of James Madison and John Adams, however, are still only copies...