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...wrote Lady Astor. "There is something broken in the works, as I told you: my will, I think." Five days later, on May 13, 1935, Lawrence swerved his motorcycle to avoid two boys, fatally crashed into a ditch. Lawrence's bust was put beside that of Nelson and Wellington in the crypt of London's St. Paul's Cathedral...
...Portrait of a Cavalier, which, unknown to the art world, had been residing for more than 100 years in the collection of a Major Warde-Aldam, went for $509,600. This year a new record for Goya was set with the sale of his hapless Duke of Wellington, which thereupon went to London's National Gallery and was almost immediately stolen. The Montreal collector, L. V. Randall, sold his master drawings for $186,400. Among them was a saint by Hugo van der Goes that brought an astonishing $84,000, making it the most expensive drawing of all time...
...record stands in concrete. The spanking new Charles G. Harrington School on Donnelly Field in East Cambridge has already opened its doors to pupils from the now abandoned Wellington and Gannett Schools and will soon be ready for the present population of Kelley School. Other new schools, like Peabody (near Radcliffe) and Morse (near Magazine Beach) have already been open for some time. The Committee has also launched several experimental programs, one, for example, an "in-service" training program for new and old teachers alike. Another major step has been the addition of aural-oral instruction in French...
...LIMITED WAR: "People talk about small wars and big wars. Wellington said that no great country can have really a small war. Our needs for peace are such that no matter we see anything happen, we must regard it as a major war because it can easily become that. This business of differentiating so clearly between so-called small wars and a global war is not too clear to me. To my mind, if this spot that you're trying to defend is so important that you are going to send troops and become involved in the thing...
...theft was so brazen that Agatha Christie herself would most likely have dismissed it as too farfetched even for Hercule Poirot to solve. For one thing, the Goya portrait of the first Duke of Wellington was just about the most-talked-about painting in Britain. It had made big headlines earlier in the summer, when U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought it for a whopping $392,000 from the Duke and Duchess of Leeds. Indignant cries went up about national treasures leaving the country, and a private foundation and Her Majesty's government raised...