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Collector Adelaide Milton de Groot, 82, is one of that expatriate generation that produced Baltimore's Gertrude Stein. The pick of her collection, ranging from Delacroix to choice Modiglianis, is on view at Manhattan's Perls Galleries, to benefit the League for Emotionally Disturbed Children. Heiress to several family fortunes, Collector de Groot lived in Paris' Gare de Lyon hotel for six years, was soon so chatty with art dealers that she was lunching in their back rooms. Her collection is a reminder of what bargains went begging in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Now snug...
Such oratory and such thinking were enough last week to win a smashing electoral victory at the polls for Strijdom: his Nationalists increased their control of the House of Assembly to 103 of the 163 seats though their popular victory was by no means so decisive since they benefit from 50-year-old electoral laws which favor the hinterland. The United Party, which is as segregationist as Strijdom but talks of "white leadership with justice," increased its representation by one, to 53, but its party leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, lost his gerrymandered seat to a Nationalist candidate. Minor political...
...addition to an advantage in size, the Tiger fifteen had the benefit of practice gained in six games this season, while the Crimson had previously played only one. The second teams ended their games...
Taylor noted that, in a survey of opinion conducted by one Kirkland tutor, several students had expressed misgivings about the program. The main objections were that students might lose the benefit of having a separate tutor and section man, and would become isolated from students in different Houses...