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NICE TRY by Thomas Baird. 280 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
Warhol soup cans vie for the ready money with old masters. Alfalfa fortunes, born yesterday, successfully bid for art treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Bil and Cora Baird give a history of puppetry...
...time is ripe not for tinkering, but for real reform," says the council's executive director, George H. Baird, 41. His goal is overhauling the curriculum from kindergarten through high school. When that task is done, the council expects to be able to send its high-school graduates to college knowing as much as the average present-day college sophomore or junior...
...directors includes Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, Combined Insurance Co. of America President W. Clement Stone. Wilkerson has his critics, among them some of the most eminent narcotics specialists in the U.S. "Sure, he'll cure a few who are motivated by a religious fervor," says Dr. Robert Baird of New York's Haven Clinic. "But what's he going to do-turn every addict in the country into a minister?" Used to such judgments of his work, Wilkerson bridles only at clerical critics. "The church," says he, "has done less to cure drug addicts than anybody...