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...pavilion stopped. About the only ones pleased with the idea, aside from the millions who might enjoy an inexpensive cafe in the park, were New York's city fathers. Last week, after a short session of the Board of Estimate, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris thanked Donor Hartford kindly and accepted the gift...
...Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week and was honored by the New York Public Library as one of its chief benefactors, donor of many literary treasures that he has collected over the years. His name is the yoth to be carved in stone in New York City's main library...
...political party of their choice-even when that choice makes the boss gag. Last week, with the approval of the U.A.W., Ford Motor Co. sent letters to some 152,000 employees urging them to make political contributions through the company under a plan that guaranteed secrecy for the donor. Ford will pass out two envelopes to each worker, one with spaces for checking his choice of either Republican or Democratic Party. He places his contribution and a signed card in the checked envelope, puts it inside the second envelope, and drops it in a box in his plant for mailing...
...zanne's familiar Les Pommes, donated by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A. M. Burden. But the "sensation of the sale," according to Parke-Bernet, was the $145,000 paid by a New York gallery for Cubist Georges Braque's Composition: The Violin. Donor of the painting, which brought a record price for a Braque: New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Museum of Modern Art trustee...
...mysterious vein than that of his master. At the Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...