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...that was apparent to anyone who observed him even for a moment. It's that he respected children, not just for their ability to amuse or inspire, but for their intellect, their inherent sense of right, and their penchant for honesty. For 33 years, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" provoked laughter, wild feats of imagination and a sense of uniqueness in the children who were fortunate enough to spend 30 minutes in Mister Rogers' televised presence. And as for the children who actually spent time with the real person - it's only now that many of us are starting to realize...
Certainly that was the case when the two men first met in Paris around 1905. Henri Matisse was then leader of the Fauves--the wild beasts--whose abruptly brushed, feverishly colored canvases had taken the lessons of Van Gogh and Gauguin to the inevitable far reaches. Pablo Picasso, 12 years younger, was still little known and working--though sometimes to surprising effect--with the dwindling resources of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. Both men were coming to grips with Cezanne and the means by which he represented space--with shallow patches of pigment that create the illusion of depth but still...
...DIED. JOHNNY LONGDEN, 96, Hall of Fame jockey who rode 6,032 winners over four decades; in Banning, Calif. He rode Count Fleet, a somewhat wild horse that Longden persuaded the owner not to sell, to a celebrated Triple Crown sweep in 1943, and won more races than any other jockey until Bill Shoemaker broke his record...
...final tale, Simon Winchester's poignant coda to a life on the move, Coming Home in Massachusetts, celebrates tilling the soil as an act that instantly turns a place into a home. "In that moment I was utterly hooked ... Tractor smoke, fine Syrian tobacco, blue alfalfa and wild mint made a cocktail of, well, probably pheromones ... that produced for me a true olfactory epiphany. It was as though in that one instant the earth sang out: ?Dig holes here. Put down roots...
...remembered for his 1977 working-class anthem Take This Job and Shove It; in Nashville, Tennessee. Paycheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen other hit singles, including Don't Take Her,She's All I Got and Slide Off Your Satin Sheets. When he renounced his wild ways in his 50s, he said of his fans: "They still remember me as that crazy, good-time-Charlie honky-tonker, and I don't tell 'em any different." DIED. LILIANE DE ROTHSCHILD, late 80s, quiet member of the French banking family known for her charitable donations...