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...begins with a patronizing sketch of her mother's dim life-pious, faithful, impoverished, with only one book dedicated to her, and that "published at the author's expense." She had not wept for her father, and she told her sister that it would be "the same for Maman." Yet, on the night that her mother went under the knife, "I went home; I talked to Sartre; we played some Bartok. Suddenly, at eleven, an outburst of tears that almost degenerated into hysteria. Amazement...
Married. Lord Rothermere, 67, British press lord presiding over an $84 million publishing empire (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch); and Mary Murchison Ohrstrom, 35, Texas heiress and niece of Clint Murchison; he for the third time (his second wife later married author Ian Fleming, who had been named corespondent in Rothermere's divorce suit), she for the second; in London...
...trying to get you to New York to make a bad girl of you.' " But she went anyway, got an appointment through him with Harper's Bazaar. The editors were so impressed when she walked into the office ("An extraordinary apparition," said one) that they put a sketch of her on the January 1965 cover, and she was soon signed to work with Photographer Richard Avedon...
...Tinted Steam." "Indistinctness is my forte," Turner declared while whirling his images into vortexes of color. On occasion, nature vied with his vision. When he was 59, London's Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire. Turner, who rarely used more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames...
Died. Burris Jenkins Jr., 69, editorial cartoonist since 1931 for the New York Journal-American, a minister's son who liked to say that "cartoonists are just frustrated preachers," proved his point with such pieces as his 1957 sketch of Uncle Sam as Little Rock's "New Cop on the Beat" and other drawings aimed at foes from Klansmen to Castro; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...