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...Church of Scotland itself, also meeting in Knox's city last week, said nothing. And below the Tweed there were pooh-poohs. Said one palace official: "As guests of the French people, the Princess and her husband shared in a typical continental Sunday. There would appear to be nothing wrong in that." Another who found the Scottish rebuke overly Knoxious was the Venerable J.H.L. Morrell, Archdeacon of Lewes. The royal couple, said Morrell, had "formally done their duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people...
After tabulation of mail ballots from University alumni, the University announced yesterday that Harrison Tweed '07 has been elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...Tweed is a prominent New York lawyer, president of the New York City Bar Association, past director of the New York Legal Aid Society, and a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund. He graduated from the Law School...
Struggle for the Minimum. A meticulous dandy, Matisse wears a light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
...seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely...