If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

He graduated from Yale in 1932 and married Mildred Akin a Vassar graduate in 1934. Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes. Russell Lynes (Joseph Russell Lynes Jr.

Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes. ) December 2 1910 – September 14 1991) was an American art historian photographer author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. He died in New York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.