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...insanity defense is rarely invoked and even more rarely successful. Among would-be assassins of Presidents, two have escaped a guilty verdict on the basis of it. One was Richard Lawrence, the house painter who fired at Andrew Jackson during a funeral service in the Capitol rotunda in 1835. The other was John Schrank, the saloonkeeper who shot Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee as the former President was en route to deliver a campaign speech...
...thought being a designer was the most superficial goal anyone could have," she says. "It's not like finding a cure for cancer, or being an artist." A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali...
Before committing herself to Harvard, though, the Biology-turned-Economics concentrator toyed briefly with the idea of going to art school. A gifted painter, Finn has sold a number of her water-color-and-oil landscapes and houses to friends and admirers...
Affluent parents of Boston and thereabouts know the town for the Putney School. It has tutored children of the famous, including some Kennedys. The area holds other well-known people, including retired Senator George Aiken, former Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Painter Jim Dine. Ted Williams is said to visit an ex-wife occasionally in these parts...
...that Catlin is a painter whose past has come. At any rate, as the Washington exhibition clearly demonstrates, he wrought better than he knew. -By A. T. Baker