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...Spiritual Wives." By that time, Watts' silky beard was greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough...
...went to work for Standard as a draftsman 33 years ago, made his name as boss of marketing and refining for Standard in the U.S. But a large part of the backbreaking operating job will still be done by Standard's red-faced, drawling President Gene Holman and the rest of Jersey's board of directors...
Died. Ralph Holmes, 30, wartime Army airman, actor brother of Actor Phillips Holmes (killed in a 1942 R.C.A.F. crash), son of Old Trouper Taylor Holmes, second husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (who was cleared of the 1932 shooting of her first husband, Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds); of barbiturate poisoning (apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets); in Manhattan...
...University will be the opponent on September 24, the week after the Brown game, at Soldiers Field. Another game has also been scheduled for the B team: Worcester Academy will play here on October 27. Coached temporarily by Freshman mentor Dave McKelvey in the absence of head coach Walter Holman, the B.U. Terriers will field an all-civilian squad against the half-and-half Crimson team...
...Libby Holman, torch-singing widow of Tobacco Heir (Camels) Zachary Smith Reynolds, was managing to keep expenses down to her prewar level, according to a guardians' report filed in Baltimore. It showed that last year's maintenance of son Christopher, 12, had cost the singer a routine...