Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculptures were paraded by, and the critics noted their opinions of the works by rating them from 0 to 3. There was occasional disagreement, but works getting more than 14 points were almost sure of winding up in a new home-the 60-story glass, steel and aluminum Chase Manhattan Bank building that opened last month near Wall Street (TIME, May 26). By last week, though the jury still had not used up its budget of $500,000, it had clearly made the Chase Manhattan Bank the most impressive modern office-museum ever built (see color...
...traditional stodginess of banks would have made all this impossible 20 years ago, but U.S. corporations are now established patrons of modern art. Chase Manhattan's art-collecting president, David Rockefeller, found an eager ally in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was obvious from the start that the bank would need large paintings for its wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan...
After Hemphill made his first big exposures, it seemed that nearly everybody in Philadelphia wanted to get into the act. The local press gleefully joined the chase, rocked the city with new revelations of corruption. The Republican Alliance, a G.O.P. reform group, hired three professional investigators to uncover more scandals. In court last week, Dilworth argued tearfully that there was no need for a grand jury investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service...
...Wilde, chairman of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Among the members: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chairman James B. Black; First Security Corp. Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Anderson, Clayton & Co. Chairman Lamar Fleming Jr.; Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; Federated Department Stores Chairman Fred Lazarus Jr.; Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller; A.F.L.-C.I.O. Research Director Stanley Ruttenberg; American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman; Bank of America Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Ford Motor Co. Finance Committee Chairman Theodore O. Yntema...
Radcliffe College held its 79th Commencement exercises in the College Yard yesterday morning, despite an imminent storm which threatened to chase 500 candidates for degrees and 2,000 guests into the nearby buildings...