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Rockefeller has always sought and welcomed advice from associates at the Modern. The person on whom he most relied was the late René d'Harnoncourt, the museum's former director and a vice president of the Museum of Primitive Art, who was killed in an auto accident last summer. Rockefeller met the courtly d'Harnoncourt, an extraordinarily knowledgeable specialist on primitive art, in the late 1930s. Together, they built Rockefeller's collection into one of the finest in the world. In 1949, he became director of the Modern, demonstrating a flair for showmanship, fund-raising...
...merger fulfilled an ambition that he had cherished since the 1930s. Then, as a youthful trustee of the Met, he had tried to interest its director in starting such a collection on the ground that its esthetic beauty was as great as that of more classical sculpture. "René d'Harnoncourt and I shared this hope, this thought, this dream," said Rockefeller. "I am pleased that it has been realized...
...D'Harnoncourt's dream for the Museum of Primitive Art may have been realized last week, but the successor he groomed as director of the Museum of Modern Art was in trouble. A terse announcement from the museum said that Bates Lowry, 43, had "resigned for personal reasons." Actually, the reasons were not so much personal as mysterious. One put forth by knowledgeable observers was that President William S. Paley had demanded Lowry's resignation because he felt that Lowry had shown insufficient interest in raising funds. That was hardly enough to fire a man outright...
...Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.) also criticized Fortas' conduct. Tydings supported Fortas during Senate Judiciary committee hearings last year on his nomination for Chief Justice by former president Lyndon Johnson...
Blind Husbands (1918 beings as an American, his wife, and a German officer enter Cortina d'Ampezzo on vacation. The officer, noticing the husband's neglect of his wife, makes advances to her. At first, he is tolerated. The husband, becoming suspicious, proposes the ascension of the Pinnacle of the Monte Cristal, a place "where man is small and God great." The drama--to that point a series of flirtations in the village below--immediately tightens on the characters as they begin hiking to the lodge...