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...active in church plays. At Harvard, he majored in mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver of a launch for the freshman crew and a painter of handball courts. He made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1932, he got his Harvard law degree, clerked for Federal Judge John Sanborn, then joined a leading Minneapolis law firm. A lifelong Republican, he was appointed a federal judge by President Eisenhower in 1959. His fellow judges...
...This is heartbreaking," said Student Paloma Picasso, 21, after a French court refused to recognize her brother Claude as Painter Pablo Picasso's legal heir. Since both Claude and Paloma are children of Picasso's former mistress, Françoise Gilot, the decision seemed to rule out any chance that Paloma might eventually share fully in her father's vast fortune. But it did not leave her entirely without assets...
Many nineteenth century artists began their careers as sign painters or carpenters and never had much formal training in art. Often this lack of instruction freed them from a rigid approach. Some explored the country searching for ever more dramatic landscapes. Frederick Edwin Church traveled to South America and painted enormous canvasses of the dense jungle beside the Andes, Painting seemed an adventure of luck in finding the right seene. Artists must have carried their easels for miles before stopping before a view and setting up equipment among the leaves. On another large canvas Church painted the sunrise spreading redness...
Irving has been around the track since his boyhood. After nine years in the army, he returned to racing in his middle twenties. He tried leaving the track again. He became a painter for a summer, then switched to carpentry, made a lot of money, and bought...
...chase reached a peak of sorts on the great estates of 17th century Germany. Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, was renowned particularly for his great bear and boar hounds, bred to the size of yearling steers. To record his chases, Duke Casimir hired a court painter named Wolfgang Birkner. The result was one of the most complete hunting chronicles ever produced...