Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Adam Clayton Powell III, 22, TV news-producer son of Harlem's high-rolling Congressman and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Beryl Gillespie Slocum, 26, socialite descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams; in an Episcopalian ceremony attended by both families; at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral...
With the Boys. Leo Heroux, a Rhode Islander, first saw Omaha on June 6, 1944, as a 19-year-old G.I. with the 5th Special Engineer Brigade. Later that day, when the U.S. attack had punched inland, a friendly farmer gave him a drink of milk and Heroux met the man's pretty daughter. They were married after the war and returned to Normandy to live. Heroux has four children now and runs a driving school with his father-in-law. Every June 6, he closes his office and wanders down barren Omaha Beach to "walk over the sand...
...celebrate this earlier renaissance, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design has mounted a small but superb exhibition of 63 Romanesque and early Gothic stone sculptures...
SINCE IT opened in 1961 through a vote of the Radcliffe Trustees, the Institute--though it remains a rather elite organization--has gradually influenced and financed more and more women besides the Scholars. More than 20 women in universities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are able to do part-time graduate work through fellowships of up to $3000 per year from the Institute. In Greater Boston hospitals, about 25 women physicians are finishing their medical training with the help of Institute grants of up to $4000 per year. All these women have similar problems: since they have husbands...
...successor, the National Gallery's trustees named the candidate that Walker had groomed for the job, J. (for John) Carter Brown, the gallery's second in command since 1961. At 34, he becomes the youngest director of a major museum in the U.S. Scion of the rich Rhode Island Browns (his grandfather founded Brown University and his parents are both well-known collectors), the new director is also a Harvard man and latter-day student of Berenson's. During the past two years, he has been principally concerned with plans for the National Gallery's most...