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...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...
...Taut Ship. In Geneva, Visser 't Hooft runs a staff of about 179, housed in a rambling cluster of chalets and barracks (until 1963. when the Council's new headquarters will be finished). Here he chain smokes his way efficiently through the day in a combination of informality (staffers phone or barge in on him directly, without going through his secretary) and protocol (he is acutely aware of any breach of seniority in seating at a conference or dinner table...
...South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes in Virginia's James River to test evacuation procedures. In Korea, Lieut. Colonel Harvey flew 114 missions. During his long service, his decorations included an Air Medal with eight oakleaf clusters and a D.F.C. with cluster. But last week Julian Harvey was dead by his own hand. And his suicide opened the books on a strange, star-crossed life...
...went to Seattle's Veteran Abstractionist Mark Tobey (see color). Tobey, now 71, first got hooked on what he calls "white writing" during a trip to China where he became fascinated by the age-old romance between calligraphy and painting. He began to see nature not as a cluster of shapes but as rhythm and vitality expressed in racing lines. At first glance Tobey's canvases sometimes seem like decorative screens, with nature hidden somewhere behind. Actually they are just the opposite: examined closely, they become a battleground of forces whose struggles extend into realms the eye cannot...
...newly approved design (shown above) the text is set in a more ornate type face with unjustified side margins. The Harvard seal is embossed in the lower righthand corner, and a reddish-brown cluster of oak leaves is inset near the left margin...