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DIED. Duncan Grant, 93. the last survivor and "court painter" of the celebrated Bloomsbury group of London-based intellectuals, which included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes; in Aldermaston, England. Greatly in demand as a decorator. Grant also designed for the stage and was a postimpressionist painter of some renown...
...will not swell the rout/ Of lads that wore their honours out,/ Runners whom renown outran/ And the name died before the man." Al most as powerful as the drama of athletes aging is that of the golden boy destroyed in his youth...
What Elizabeth settled after marriage was her career as a writer. She began writing short stories and, in remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...Robert V. Roosa, 59, a partner in the investment banking house of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. An early supporter of Carter, Roosa gained renown as an innovator in international finance when he served as Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs from...
Charles Kowal lacks the academic credentials and worldwide renown enjoyed by many of the other scientists at the California Institute of Technology. Though he is the author of some two dozen scientific papers, he has neither a Ph.D. nor a coterie of doting graduate students. What Kowal, 37, does have is a discerning eye and an insatiable appetite for scanning the sky. During the past decade, he has discovered one comet and five more that had somehow been "lost" as well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding...