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...worth more than $30 million in MCA stock, but he lives-frugally by some neighbors' standards-in a $400,000 one-bedroom house in Beverly Hills designed by Harold Lezitt. There is a Henry Moore beside the driveway, a Soutine on the dining-room wall, and a Bernard Buffet portrait of Wasserman himself, a gift from Alfred Hitchcock, in the foyer. Mrs. Wasserman sleeps in the bedroom. Wasserman sleeps on a couch in the study, where he gets up at 5 each morning and starts making phone calls to breakfasting subordinates in New York...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and seven other labor leaders were put in proper holiday spirits by the President's renewal of a campaign pledge to work for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation...
Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing sent the biggest, a 22-in. by 35-in. reproduction of a portrait of Pope John XXIII by Paris' Bernard Buffet; Theologian Paul Tillich the longest, a two-page personal letter. Postmaster General John Gronouski got his 2,000 cards out early, remembered to zip-code each and every one. Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, who had bucked voter opinion to back Johnson, discovered too late that the etching of the Governor's mansion had been tampered with-the name Goldwater was scratched in amongst branches of an overhanging tree...
...currently exhibiting the prints of Jean Dubuffet (no, Virginia, he is not the same as Bernard Buffet). The word "important" is probably the most over-used term in the art dealer's vocabulary; yet it is safe to apply it to Dubuffet, who seems one of the three or four most significant artists to emerge since World War II. Incidentally, his recent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York was accompanied by an excellent illustrated catalogue, which may still be had from Mandrake...
Lately, moreover, they have dismissed the short cuts-the vast cocktail party and the buffet supper-for the older, more elegant sit-down dinner...