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...several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...
...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...
...form of polygons is also the rule for Puerto Rico's only art museum. The island commonwealth, famed for frolic, sun and sugar, last week celebrated the opening of a $2,000,000 museum in Ponce, designed by Edward Durell Stone and almost entirely bankrolled by Industrialist Luis Ferré, who is a three-time loser in the island's gubernatorial elections. Seven skylighted interior galleries are hexagonal, juxtaposing art works that can be scanned in a single twirl...
...cloth-coated walls, the new museum displays Ferré's 400-work, $3,000,000 collection. There are paintings by Velásquez, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Vandyke, but Ferré preferred gems to giants-and purchased excellent examples of pre-Raphaelite and Italian baroque painters long held unfashionable. "We have minor masters rather than poor paintings by the big masters," he says. But the museum is not intended only as a repository. To stimulate Puerto Rican art, there are exhibited 150 paintings made on the island itself...
...Ferré became established as his own best interpreter only after he met his wife Madeleine in 1950. For years he had been down and out in Paris, playing and singing for $2 a night and composing on the side. "Operation Madeleine," as he calls the metamorphosis he undertook after his marriage, promptly rescued his career. He took off his glasses, got his teeth capped, cut his hair-and immediately found a whole new audience. Now at 47, he owns an island in Brittany, a house in the south of France, an apartment in Paris and an American...