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Benjamin F. Wright, President of Smith College, will deliver the principal address at Radcliffe's 75th Commencement, which will begin this morning at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre. Wright will speak on the needs of American universities. John C. MacLeod of the First Prebyterian Church of Newburyport, will be Commencement Chaplain...
This week in Manhattan, to celebrate Picasso's 75th birthday, the Museum of Modern Art is opening the most comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's works ever collected under one roof. On view for a summer-long show that takes over three whole floors are 328 paintings, sculptures and drawings, selected from 95 collections. Included are 31 works owned by Picasso, which can be distinguished by the fact that the old man, with a peasant's shrewdness, never signs a painting until it is sold...
...Hotel ballroom where he had appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...
Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association. Speaking in Milwaukee to the 75th annual convention of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, Howard C. Raether said that the trend is now away from the cut-and-dried "memorial service" and back toward more ceremonial funerals. "Sociologists, clergymen and psychologists point out the therapy a funeral service provides for the survivors," said Raether...
...first-level restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th birthday. The guest list read like a bluebook of aviation, and most of the guests, now generals, admirals, statesmen or heads of corporations, had known and admired Von Karman and his eccentric genius for decades. Without the principles of aerodynamics that he discovered, they could not be building or flying high-speed modern aircraft...