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...Devereux C. Josephs '15 yesterday became chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University. At the first fall meeting of the Board, Josephs was elected to succeed Roy E. Larsen '21, president of Time-Life...
Fabulous old N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth crammed his children's-book illustrations with sunset skies, flashing weapons, taut sails, flowing tresses, war bonnets, redcoats and pieces of eight. Andrew Wyeth, his even more famous son, has gradually emptied his own pictures of all but the barest, palest and sharpest images. As against his father's brocades, Andrew Wyeth's art has the austerity of smoky quartz crystals; yet it is all the richer for that, and the more valued. Last week the Philadelphia Museum of Art bought a typically bare new Wyeth...
...odds held fast through the third contestant's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and at evening's end the expected announcement was made: 24-year-old Pianist Malcolm Frager was the 2Oth-anniversary winner of the U.S.'s most prestigious instrumental competition, for the Leventritt Award...
...Stuart Davis, by E. C. Goossen, traces the logic that leads Davis to paint as he does. Davis' sharp, brassy, eye-hurting brand of abstraction is something all his own, however, and not easily analyzed...
James Stillman Rockefeller, 57, president of First National City Bank of New York, was appointed chairman of the board succeeding Howard C. Sheperd, who retires Nov. 1 at 65. A grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and second cousin of New York's Governor, the new chairman bosses the nation's third largest bank (first: Bank of America, second: Chase Manhattan). A grandson of James Stillman, president of National City from 1891 to 1909, Rockefeller captained Yale's 1924 crew, spurred it to victory in that year's Olympic Games. Married in 1925 to a grandniece...