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DIED. Louis Marx Sr., 85, manufacturer and philanthropist; in White Plains, N.Y. The Henry Ford of toymaking, he relied on mass production, underpricing, and a shrewd adapter's eye. Among his discoveries was a Filipino folk toy that in 1928 became the yoyo. A collector of famous friends, notably President Dwight Eisenhower, he aided poor children with 1 million gift toys a year...
Meanwhile, Arthur M. Sackler, the medical researcher and art collector who reportedly pledged $7.9 million toward the aborted extension, refused to say yesterday whether he plans to withdraw his gift, calling the question "an internal [Harvard] matter...
...still have them. They don't take up much room, and they're a little page in aviation history." Now, to a layman, 117 bags might seem enough. But Sweeting confides that he has just struck a deal to procure 300 more bags from a private collector in California...
...course, the new wing contains a great deal more than Asmat art, or even New Guinea art in general. Nelson Rockefeller was a voracious collector of primitive art as such, and almost everything he owned-the 3,500 or so objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number...
...leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years. "A beautiful something in suede," he says, "is more like a collector's item than a piece of clothing." Ralph Lauren and Anne Klein both use suede and leather extensively for knickers and culottes, skirts both mini and long, T shirts and strapless tops...