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...London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still and all, the smaller (34 in. by 30 in.) and less ambitious St. Bartholomew had brought the fourth highest auction price yet for a single painting. When the painting was knocked down (to Agnew's, another big London art dealer), the old gentleman...
...fell behind in his experiments, and began using up precious hydrogen peroxide, the fuel that is ejected as a gas to turn the capsule in flight. Says one Mercury official: "These guys all want to wobble the stick, and that's where the damn fuel goes." Balloon Bust. Little things kept going wrong. Passing over Nigeria, the temperature in Carpenter's suit went...
Many shelter manufacturers have moved into other lines of production. After switching from swimming pools to shelters, one firm in Boston is back to swimming pools again. Once burned by the shelter boom-to-bust, the manufacturers are twice wary. Says Norton: "If we had another international crisis, I don't know of a manufacturer who would make a move of his own until we got an explicit national plan endorsing home shelters...
...sentimental Capitol Hill ceremony mustering many of the Congressional colleagues who voted to end his 20-year Republican House leadership in 1959, a bust of Massachusetts' genial Representative Joseph Martin, 77, this week was unveiled in the "Hall of Fame" rotunda of the Old House Office Building. Sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, artist sister of ex-Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Baron Robert Silvercruys. the bust, commissioned by women's Republican clubs, will take its place alongside eight other hallowed Congressional heads al ready in the hall...
...that hangs in the Louvre. The price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was ?1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The staggering sum only increased the shock of the academy's announcement. Having sneered at the fusty place for nearly 200 years, the public now began to snarl...