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...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...
...bought it from a washerwoman to whom Rousseau had given the painting in payment for her services. Several alumni have lent a number of works to the show; Industrialist Stephen C. Clark, '03, donated 24 pieces to the exhibit, among them Degas' Self Portrait. Another top contributor is Henry J. (57 Varieties) Heinz, '31, who lent Rufino Tamayo's somber Woman with a Shawl, along with 15 other paintings and sculpture. Estimated value of all the art treasures shown: more than $20 million...
...fact of the super-sleek 1960 New Yorker that those who love it best worry about it the most. Contributor Phyllis McGinley thinks of The New Yorker as the place where she was "first published, weaned, pruned and loved." Says she: "Whereas I once read it cover to cover, now I read it like a tired businessman. It's no longer a funny magazine; yet it isn't a literary magazine either. They still seem to think they're witty and sophisticated, but they're not. They're afraid of originality...
...time he rises to speak?and he gives about 100 speeches a year across the land?Bowles rolls his I's, manages to mention his personal experiences in high political jobs. He is also a prolific author (half a dozen books on politics and international affairs since 1954 ), magazine contributor, letter-to-the-editor writer, interview giver. To his benefit, Bowles is an intimate of most of the top candidates. The jacket of his latest book. The Coming Political Breakthrough, is alive with blurbs from Jack Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and even Harry Truman...
...oldfashioned, small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts pleasantly over the city...