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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late R.F. Delderfield may have been the final heir of a tradition invented to while away long, damp English evenings: the multivolumed family saga. As the literary grandson of Trollope and son of Galsworthy, Delderfield industriously erected his own Barchester Towers, climbed his own Forsythe family tree. His mythical family, the Swanns, lived through everything from the Zulu War to the sinking of the Titanic. Writing seven days a week, from 10 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon, and from 6 to 7 in the evening, Delderfield produced an imposing series of doorstoppers, bearing such titles...
...them, The Horse Chestnut Tree, went to Sotheby's in 1973 and was sold for ?15,000 ($34,500), a record for Palmers, to a chocolate manufacturer in Hull. Sotheby's still claims it has not been proved a Keating fake...
Gradually, suspicions began to hatch. More than four years ago, Leger Galleries had a visit from a leading Palmer specialist, Sir Karl Parker, who pronounced Sepham Barn a fake. When The Horse Chestnut Tree appeared in Sotheby's, one of its former consultants, David Gould, wrote to Chairman Peter Wilson expressing doubts about it. But the scandal was finally exposed when Geraldine Norman, the London Times's auction-room correspondent, tracked Keating to his lonely cottage in Dedham. "I have so much contempt for the dealers who prostitute the art of genuine painters," Keating announced, "that...
...Research. Lignasan BLP is dissolved in water and pumped into a tree's circulatory system through holes drilled into the tree at or just below the root "flare" at ground level. In experiments conducted on 7,500 trees last year and an anticipated 100,000 elms this summer by the Elm Research Institute of Harrisville, N.H., early test results indicate that Lignasan is 99% effective when used preventively-before the disease strikes-on healthy trees. But many plant scientists refuse to endorse the product until they know more about proper dosages, duration of protection and the chemical...
...players know this all too well. A tournament player learned long ago that his game goes to pieces just knowing that his father is in the stands. In the early informal days, the proud father, longing to see his son, would sneak up on the game, skulking from tree to tree at the country club. But the son ?mysteriously sensitive to his father's presence?always blew up on the court...