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WHEN TIME'S Art Researcher Martha Peter Welch began to check the story of the Mount Vernon Museum's miniature of Martha Custis Washington (see ART), supposedly a 1772 work of Charles Willson Peale, she discovered Yale University had another miniature, also thought to be the 1772 Peale portrait. Since both were acquired from direct descendants of the nation's first First Lady, the museum and university quietly began to reconcile their claims...
Last week the Mount Vernon Museum put on display a long-out-of-sight miniature, claiming it to be the very one that Martha Washington sat for as her part of the bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore...
...quaint and often humorous pictorialization. These two facets are much in evidence in this attractive album of his complete harpsichord music. Pieces such as "The Hens" or "The Joke" are marvelously descriptive but obey Rameau's strict harmonic rules which caused such a controversy in his day. Harpsichordist Robert Vernon-Lacroix gives a properly stylized rendition and the re-ording is precise. (Westminster...
...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
...about one such death in July. A five-year-old boy who had been given his three shots died in Indiana ten minutes after admission to a hospital with a diagnosis of bulbar polio. Last week a second (and fully confirmed) case turned up: James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash, died of bulbar polio three months after getting his third Salk shot...