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On the velvet block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction gallery last week was a yellowish nude by Pierre Bonnard, and the bidding had already reached $99,000. There, for a moment, it stayed, until the auctioneer breezily pointed out that "it would be much nicer to be able...
The collection on sale belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Juviler of New York and Palm Beach, who explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main...
Fighting against this trend, some major airframe makers tried diversification-turning to everything from hydrofoil boats to garbage disposal plants. Famed old Glenn L. Martin Co. retired altogether from the airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products...
Key scientific developments have all been based on the principle of conservation of energy, says Jones. He believes that the organizational problems of the space age must be solved by a similar key-conservation of resources. And he cheers the Pentagon's new-found concern with fewer, multiple-purpose...
Social Mannerist Amy Vanderbilt, who as the U.S.'s leading lecturer on etiquette has gamely smiled at many a photographer's bidding, returned from her latest tour to report a minor sociological phenomenon: regional differences among photographers in the word they ask their subjects to say in order...