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Because of the undeniable popularity of Kennedy, Republicans were not too eager to run against him. The nod finally went to Vincent J. Celeste, an East Boston lawyer and one-time aid to former Governor Christian Herter. He has never held an elective office and lists as his experience the fact that he ran for Congress (against Kennedy) in 1950 and was an alternate delegate to the 1956 Republican national Convention...
Even admitting that Kennedy is none too good, his almost unknown Republican adversary seems far worse. Vincent J. Celeste, an East Boston attorney, has never held an elective office in the state. As qualifications for the Senate, he lists an unsuccessful candidacy against Kennedy in 1950 and four years' work as a secretary in the office of former Governor Herter...
From Van Gogh's letters have already been quarried bestsellers, psychoanalytical monographs and at least one better-than-average movie, Lust for Life (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956). But a fuller and more vivid story than any of these is revealed with the publication of The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh (New York Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate...
Night of the Soul. The one stable relationship of Vincent's life was with his younger brother. And it is to Theo, first cautiously, then in a torrent, that he pours forth his doubts and his struggles. From the coal pits of Belgium, he confessed to Theo his failure as a lay preacher, crying: "How can I be of use in the world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy...
...Vincent van Gogh was 27 when he found his profession; he was 37 when he died. In the ten years he painted more than 800 canvases, turned out as many or more drawings and watercolors. There is hardly a step of the way that his letters do not chronicle and enlighten...