Inevitably, the tree had to get bigger, to hold Disraeli, The Last Great Victory, Uncrowned King, and now MacArthur´s War, Dear Young Friend, and The Importance of Being Edward.
One by one the children left for college. The books continued to be produced, often from afar. They married....and their spouses (Judy, Carie Lee, and Bruce) took turns decorating additional matchbox books: The London Yankees, The Unexpected Shaw,…
In the later 1960´s, Mark, David and Erica, Stanley Weintraub´s children, wanted to persuade their father to let them put up a tree at Christmas. Until then he had been unwilling. With the encouragement of their mother, they developed a strategy. The…
Four Rossettis:A Victorian Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1977
p. 213
Recalling the Christmas of 1874, Dr. Hake described Gabriel as "much unstrung" silent on his walks with Watts and himself along the boulders fringing Selsey Bay.…
Beardsley: A Biography
New York: George Braziller, 1967
p. 14
Beardsley also designed the programs for some of [his school´s] entertainments. His most ambitious achievement was....for the Christmas musical The Pay of the Pied Piper, performed…
Whistler: A Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1988
p. 42
One of the great culinary events of 1857 for Whistler [was]...gala Christmas dinner conceived by Tom Armstrong and composed of all the foods they had dreamed of in bad…
Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
New York: George Braziller, 1965
p. 114
It appeared on November 30, 1901, and was the best publicity the novel [Cynthia´s Damages] received, but sales did not pick up, and Reggie mourned in a pre-Christmas…