Word: dwan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greasy Verisimilitude. But not even in their wildest dreams did the oldtimers go in for a production like Edward Kienholz's The Beanery (opposite), currently assembled at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery. A veritable apotheosis of the ordinary, it is West Coast Artist Kienholz's reconstruction of a favorite Los Angeles artists' greasy spoon, a kind of frozen happening quickened by sounds (random conversations, taped on the spot, and jukebox background music) and circulating odors (stale bacon grease) pushed around...
...Alworth's $1,000,000 memorial to his parents, limited to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the physical sciences, and medicine, which has aided a total of 270 students in twelve years, including some whose grants saw them through eight years of schooling. ¶The John C. Dwan Educational Foundation, founded this year by the widow of a local attorney and director of the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. who left an estate of $22,579,000. ¶The Soneson scholarships, established last year in the will of Mrs. Anna Soneson Rahn to honor her first husband...