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...Jerusalem Museum of Art is quite a dream in itself. Now being built on top of a sawed-off hill near the Israeli Knesset, it will house not onlv the old Bezalel National Museum, which is the largest general museum in the Middle East, but also the Samuel Bronfman Archaeology Museum, a Shrine of the Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would...
Search for the Man. Mies van der Rohe's chance to build his first Manhattan skyscraper came through a young woman who is neither a corporation executive nor a professional architect, but has a personal interest in both Seagram's and architecture. Mrs. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, 31, daughter of Seagram President Samuel Bronfman, was living in Europe in 1954 when she saw a magazine story about the building her father proposed to build. "I was boiling with fury," she recalls. "I wrote him that he wanted a really fine building, and he was lucky to be living...
When President Samuel Bronfman of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams started to look for a man to boss the Canadian company's U.S. subsidiary, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons (Seagram's, Calvert, Four Roses), he did not have to look far from home. Into the job last week went his party-loving son, Edgar Miles Bronfman, 27. As president of the nation's top distiller (1956 sales: $677 million), young Bronfman replaces Frank R. Schwengel, 71, who takes over the new office of chairman. Edgar's brother Charles Bronfman, 25, stays in Canada as vice president of another subsidiary...
...lean six-footer, Ed Bronfman has been pushed ahead fast. He started with Seagrams as a teen-aged brewer and blender in Montreal, became his father's assistant after graduating with honors in history from McGill University in 1951. In 1955 he moved to Manhattan as chairman of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons' administrative committee...
...Distillers Corp.-Seagrams' President Samuel Bronfman, International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson, United Merchants 81 Manufacturers' President J. W.Schwab, Colgate-Palmolive Chairman Edward H. Little, Procter & Gamble President Neil H. McElroy, Republic Steel's President C. M. White...