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...opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...
...Virginia-born Lady Astor, back in the U.S. for her third visit in two years, would winter in Arizona-and, of course, lecture a little. Her opening statement: "We've got to get Germany back on her feet. It's not only the decent thing to do, but it's a matter of self-preservation...
...Virginia-born Lady Astor, usually handier with vinegar than honey, paid her native land a pretty tribute as she sailed for Britain after another visit home: "Despite the radio, movies, and the selling here-some of them would sell their own grandmother if it would do any good-the people are the soundest, sanest and most generous people in the world." For Russia, she expressed what almost sounded like sympathy: "Look at Russia's internal problems. Look what she has to do with that vast country of hers-feeding all those people, and cleaning them...
...Princeton's Historian Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, 68, Virginia-born chairman of the history department, whose books on the pre-Revolutionary South (The First Americans, The Founding of American Civilisation, etc.) gave U.S. history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...
...owner and driver of the Buick was Virginia-born, 29-year-old Daniel Gillmor, editor & publisher of the late, Communist-line magazine Friday. An amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once...