Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nephew of Serge Koussevitzky, Fabien dropped the "Kous" from his name when he came to the U.S. in 1923 so as not to trade on his uncle's reputation...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
Presentation to Moors Hall of a painting of Maria Buckminster, great-grand -mother of Moors, was announced by President Jordan. Donor of the painting was Thomas D. Cabot '19, nephew of Moors and a Radcliffe trustee...
Lowell only put 16,000 miles on the speedometer. The next owner was Peter B. Seamans '46, who was the brother-in-law of Augustus L. Putnam '49, great-nephew to the president and one of Post's roomates. The automobile, purchased from Lowell's estate after his death, was a wedding-gift to Seamans...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...