Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newsreels. The stepson of a former jockey turned trainer, Baeza was 14 when he rode in his first race at Panama's Juan Franco track. He finished dead last, and after the race the stewards suspended him for being "inept." Vowing "Some day I win the Kentucky Derby" Braulio took to haunting movie houses that showed newsreels of U.S. races ("Eddie Arcaro always won. He was a beautiful hand rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about...
Peter Pelham, a relatively unknown Boston mezzotint engraver and portrait painter, died in 1751, leaving his studio to his thirteen-year-old stepson. In the course of the next two years, that studio studio provided the nutriment for what became one of the richest and most vital careers in the history American painting. Pelham's stepson was John Singleton Copley, and his career is commemorated this year a major retrospective exhibition of his work. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have gathered 103 oils, pastels, minatures, and drawing (including...
...intentions in mystery. By chance, Art Dealer Fowles, now 80 and retired, happened by Parke-Bernet, spotted the bust he had bought 45 years before. He decided to buy it for the Metropolitan "so that it would get the glory it deserves." To hide his hand, Fowles sent his stepson to do his bidding; the Met sent a junior curator. All that kept the price from going sky-high was that each party thought that the final bid had been his; only later did Fowles learn that the auctioneer had awarded the sculpture...
...those things her husband makes, anyway. "I used to drive in Italy with a small, little car," explained the former Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, "but over here I don't even try. American cars look too big on me." Nowadays Cristina just leaps onto Stepson Edsel's bike and tools around Grosse Pointe. Sometimes, when he's home from work, Henry pedals along behind...
...Roman philosopher Seneca came to a sad end. Spurred by patriotism, he came out of exile to tutor Emperor Claudius' unstable stepson Nero and was rewarded for his pains several years later when his onetime student ordered him to commit suicide. At least Nero recognized greatness; ordinary mortals died by torture when a shadow crossed the Emperor's demented brain. In this threadbare, novelistic pastiche, Vincent Sheean treats Seneca far worse. Though the historical Seneca was second only to Cicero as an exponent of Stoicism, Sheean's Seneca has only windy self-pity and a maundering facility...