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RICHARD A. MADIGAN Assistant Director Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A critical evaluation of L.B.J. by men close to his four predecessors: Kennedy Biographer James MacGregor Burns, Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, Truman Economist Leon Keyserling, and Roosevelt Brain-Truster Thomas Corcoran...
...Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge...
Magnificent Mixture. Now, 38 years later, widowed and childless, she plans to pass on her modern collection of 150 lovingly gathered paintings and sculptures (valued at $500,000) to the Corcoran Gallery-already well stocked in 19th century U.S. artists and The Eight-in Washington...
...gallery of national art in their capital," says Mrs. Halpert. Her remedy is a magnificent mixture (see color pages) of Marin, Sheeler, Davis, Demuth, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn, William Zorach, Max Weber-all at one time shown in her gallery -and dozens more. Yet she refuses to let the Corcoran label her bequest as the Halpert Collection, because she hopes to persuade others to give works. "There are lots of gaps," says she. "You see, I've only bought the things I've loved." Her love has hardly gone astray...