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Manhattan's galleries were off to a flying 1953 start with some 30 new shows open last week. Gallerygoers could choose to see almost anything from mild Bermuda landscapes to bleak views of the Arctic or carvings from the Congo. But the standout exhibition was home-town work: 119 paintings by two Greenwich Village women who rank among the top U.S. artists. Both are considered abstractionists, but the term covers a lot of ground and their paintings are as different as cumulus and calculus...
...such, it is only the newest unit in Pan Am's long-range plan for increasing tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. I.H.C. already manages hotels in Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, owns and operates Mexico City's Reforma and will take over Bermuda's Princess Hotel on lease...
...Bermuda pilot boat, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and a Kindley base crash boat raced out through whitecaps, pulled four survivors (including the steward) from the edge of a circle of burning gasoline 500 yards across; 37 others were drowned or burned to death...
...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...spacious room was decorated with flags, flowers, and a 37-ft. mural of old New York; music floated in through loudspeakers. Everyone who showed up got a free piggy bank and free chances on 18 prizes ranging from a new Mercury to a trip to Bermuda and Nassau; those who opened accounts of $5 or more got pen & pencil sets...