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...German words which he had picked up in the arms of an innkeeper's wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...
Within the Sacred Wood Just who was the father of Maurice Utrillo? The list of possibilities suggested at one time or another as the sire of the late, famed, alcoholic painter of Montmartre scenes sounds like a roll call of 19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...
Lafayette: No, Sire...
...Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...
Droll but proper Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, 65, only star of the Army-McCarthy hearings to emerge an undisputed hero, more recently a TV commentator, was named "Father of the Year" by an amorphous group called the National Father's Day Committee. Patriarch Welch, sire of two sons, reacted with "delighted astonishment...