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Hollywood Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson is a dedicated amateur in the world of art, and filmdom's most ardent art collector. The passion for paintings, he says, is "a rewarding love affair, even if it takes over your house, your family, your income and your life." This week 40 of Robinson's prize oils take over part of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and in May the collection will move on to the National Gallery in Washington...
...Northwest's eyes will focus on Douglas McKay, the new Secretary of the Interior. An ardent states-rights governor of Oregon for the past two years, he told the Senate Committee of the Interior that "public power was getting most of the breaks in the Northwest." This may mean that McKay will not object if Congress fails to appropriate money for new transmission lines; it might even mean that McKay will want to let the private companies build the new projects on the Columbia. In any event, private utilities all over the country will eagerly watch developments in the Northwest...
...business, Yale man Heffelfinger has kept largely in the G.O.P. background. But his wife, an early supporter of Harold Stassen, has worked in the G.O.P.'s Minnesota front ranks for more than a decade, has been a member of the national committee since 1948, and was an ardent Eisenhower supporter at last year's G.O.P. convention. One of the Heffelfingers' four daughters, Rosalie, is married to Philip Herman Willkie, son of the 1940 Republican nominee for President...
...ardent admirer of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, but I'm afraid the publicity in TIME, Feb. 2 about the poor type of breakfast they eat* will set good nutrition back 25 years...
Huseyin Avni, an ardent patriot of the small Turkish town of Seferihisar, loves his country and loves his hashish.* One day not long ago, after a zesty breakfast of coffee and hashish, Huseyin glanced out of his window and, to his horror, saw a detachment of Soviet soldiers standing menacingly in the garden of his neighbor. Without a moment's hesitation, he seized an axe, leaped the fence and began laying about with a will. He dropped three to the ground before the police, hastily summoned by the neighbor, at last subdued Huseyin long enough to point out that...