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...much by disposition as descent, Harry Flood Byrd was an aristocrat. Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society. In courtly but inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering...
...carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur. The U. S. and Canada together have some 50 carillons, most of them scattered through cities of the East. Nearly all of them are played by old Jef Denyn pupils...
...Pieter Hemony of Amsterdam, ablest bell founder of his time. The youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn and, as U. S. representative...
Sprig of a patrician Boston family whose wealth came from shipping and New England real estate, Eleonora Sears is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef ferson. Her mother's father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs...
Here a U. S. cinema plot might have called for a hasty showdown, in which Jef would either forgive his Marceline or, pardonably, shoot her. Director Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully...