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Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. The author, who as a boy sat for his father, the great impressionist painter, now turns portraitist, and his biography is one of the most likable in years...
...lacks in tradition-having been founded a mere 60 years ago by King Edward VII-it makes up in exclusiveness: only 24 living Britons at any one time are entitled to write O.M. after their names. Filling two vacancies left by the deaths of Historian G. M. Trevelyan and Portraitist Augustus John, Queen Elizabeth named goateed Architect Sir Basil Spence, 55, rebuilder of the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, and Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey deHavilland, 80, whose company turned out swarms of Mosquito fighter-bombers during World War II. to join the distinguished company of such men as Poet...
Died. Jean-Gabriel Domergue, 73, slick Parisian portraitist of beautiful women, notably Greta Garbo, Michelle Morgan and Lucienne Boyer, whom he glorified in a light and decorative style; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...biography in years has been as warm and likable as this recollection of the great impressionist painter Renoir by his son Jean. The younger Renoir posed for his father constantly as a child; now, turned portraitist, he has done a remarkable job of sketching a gentle genius. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is lucky in his biographer; his son, a playwright and film director (The River) shows none of the radiation damage that sons of geniuses sometimes display...
Married. René Bouché. 56, Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover painter (Jean Kerr, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren); and Anne Denise Alicia Lawson-Johnston, 34, a former editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...