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...please himself, Hopkinson does watercolors between portrait commissions. Last week Boston's Margaret Brown Gallery was exhibiting the landscapes he painted on a trip to New Zealand last year. The work of a lifelong sailor, his watercolors are sometimes as taut with motion as a sailboat in a stiff breeze...
...Like a sailor come home, Pound tells the folks about the marvels he knows. He delves into the intrigues of Renaissance Italy and renders Greek myths in his own way; gives a long narrative of Chinese history and satirizes the visit to Europe of a lady from Kansas; comments on philosophical problems and wanders off into topical harangues. He loves to indulge in the old Bohemian game of scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear...
True Colors. In Chicago, police explained how they had caught James E. Glore impersonating a sailor: he was wearing two-toned sport shoes...
Died. Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Victor of Prussia, 64, boorish third ("Sailor Boy") son of Kaiser Wilhelm II,† noted in his youth for love affairs, bad manners, and the fact that he spent much of World War I as a naval officer luxuriating in Bruges, Belgium; of a heart ailment; in Montreux, Switzerland...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...