Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again Richard Nixon was not far offstage. Like the first speech, the Montgomery message was written by Nixon Speechwriter Pat Buchanan and circulated around the White House before delivery. There were other similarities. As in Des Moines, some worthy targets loomed in Agnew's sights; as in Des Moines, his ammunition was faulty...
...mother was related to the Ford clan and sister to J. L. Hudson, founder of Detroit's biggest department store. His mother helped to found Detroit's first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where...
...blundered when he cited examples to indicate bad news judgment by the Times. He declared that it "did not carry a word" about 300 Congressmen and 59 Senators who signed a letter endorsing the President's policy in Viet Nam. The fact is that the story missed the first edition but made all others...
Cummings should know. For more than 40 years, Tannahill was active in the affairs of the Institute. He was a longtime member of its governing body and an honorary curator of American art. He made his first gift (an 18th century Hispano-Moorish vase valued at $25) in 1926, and remained a generous benefactor till his death in September at the age of 76. In his will Tannahill made his personal choices public by giving his favorite museum a last and most munificent gift: his multimillion-dollar private collection, including a life-size Renoir nude, seven Cezanne oils, five major...
...coldly classical, and though he appreciated style, he did not care for the showy. Sometimes his predilections led him astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the American painter John Carroll, whose wispy, willowy ladies were scarcely top quality even in their own time. Nevertheless, there are enough first-rate impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tannahill collection to make any museum happy-especially the Detroit Institute. "One of our most worrisome gaps has been in the area of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," says Director Willis F. Woods. Adds Assistant Director Cummings: "Now we can compete with Chicago...