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...Thursday, Gov. Rockefeller joked with Gov. Volpe, and other, lesser Republican dignitaries at a reception given by the Harvard Young Republicans; and amidst the laughter he warned that "in this period of conflict in the world, the two party political system is the basic strength of democracy...
Murmuring scholarly pleasantries, a pride of art professors and museum officials gathered amidst the grainy oak paneling and ostentatiously plain furniture of Manhattan's Harvard Club, only to find the place set with traps. For cocktail-hour amusement before a dinner of the Friends of Harvard's Fogg Museum, the Fogg's director, tweedy John P. Coolidge of the Boston Coolidges, had arranged a jolly academic jape: the walls were hung with forged art-or was it all forged...
...Amidst the brocade and crystal furnishings of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel, Pioneer Modern Architect Walter Gropius, 78, stood up to receive the second Kaufmann International Design Award, a tax-free $20,000, for his "achievement in design education" while founder and director of Germany's austerely functional Bauhaus. Gropius cast a wry glance at most modern buildings, said, "It seems completely futile to inject quality into buildings and goods which are created only for their short entertainment value." What was needed in the U.S., said Gropius, was a movement like Britain's "Anti-Uglies," irate architecture...
...Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year's guests at Getty's Sutton Place mansion near London saw, on a wall of pale green silk, an 8-ft. by 6-ft. canvas that Getty said was the real Diana and Her Nymphs. And it is generally acknowledged that Rubens never painted the same subject twice...
...excellent weekend exchange program at the University of Toronto, from Nov. 17-19. The weekend was well balanced between a social and intellectual exchange. A lecture, a panel, and discussion groups fulfilled the latter function. The main issues of the weekend centered around Canada's relation to the U.S., amidst present world crisis conditions...