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This background fits well in the framework of the Lodge family's dedication to public service. Lodge's grandfather and namesake was a Senate leader during the early part of this century. And in addition to Son George's political endeavors, Cabot can claim a younger brother, John, 60, who was Ambassador to Spain (1955-56) as well as a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Connecticut. Cabot's wife Emily, while not a political figure herself, displays the kind of attractiveness and charm that help win elections...
...Mansfield was born on the edge of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen 61 years ago this week to a father who had emigrated from County Kilkenny and a mother who hailed from Limerick. His mother died when he was seven, and he was packed off with two younger sisters to live with relatives in Great Falls, Mont. When the U.S. entered World War I, he quit the eighth grade and ran away from home, got into the Navy just before he was 15 by lying about his age. He served on convoy duty in the Atlantic...
Obviously used to homework, Sizer is the son of Yale's mustachioed Pro fessor Emeritus Theodore Sizer, a splendidly offbeat art historian now serving as Yale's first "Pursuivant of Arms" (designer of college flags). Himself a Yaleman ('53), the younger Sizer first learned that he liked teaching when he became an Army gunnery instructor, later taught math and English at Boston's private Roxbury Latin School. By 1961 he was an assistant professor, with a Harvard Ph.D. in history and education. More important, he became director of the education school's main claim...
Buhlie's mother, Josephine ("Dody") Ford, is the younger sister of Henry II and the wife of Walter Buhl Ford II, an industrial designer who is no kin to the automotive dynasts. Hearing all the talk of the Mustang, Dody asked her brother to let her try it. (Henry himself has been driving one on the freeway between Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked...
...them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said of him: "I wish I could put a twist in a tiger's tail like that man." Rodin, 44 years younger, claimed Barye as his teacher and artistic father...