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DIED. James Whitney Fosburgh, 67, portrait and landscape painter who under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served as chairman of a special committee to buy American paintings for the White House; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...that end, she appointed two committees: one, headed by Antiques Expert Henry F. du Pont, to assemble period furniture, and the other, headed by New York Painter and Lecturer James W. Fosburgh, to seek out paintings and sculptures...
...best one-word description of Henry J. Kaiser, 77, and his son Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, 51, is the title of the TV program sponsored by their $1.8 billion industrial empire: Maverick. Before he moved upstairs to let his son take over, bulldozing Henry J. built a worldwide network of diversified companies with an independence and daring that alternately drew gasps, laughter, and profanity from U.S. industry. Last week Son Edgar once more proved that the Kaisers are mavericks: he settled with the striking United Steelworkers on behalf of his Kaiser Steel Corp., thus breaking the industry's solid ranks...
Married. Mary Gushing Astor, 47, eldest of the late Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing's three beautiful, millions-marrying daughters (her sisters' husbands: CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Financier John Hay Whitney); and James Whitney Fosburgh, 43, Yale-educated Manhattan artist and World War II Army glider pilot; he for the first time, she for the second (her previous marriage, to Manhattan Millionheir William Vincent Astor, ended in divorce in September); in Manhasset...
...Fosburgh is a late starter: he is having his first one-man show at 41. After musing through galleries and lecturing for four years at Manhattan's Frick Museum on everything from Chinese ceramics to Boucher, he finally decided to turn painter. Wartime service as an Army glider pilot held him up for five years. Then he spent another year experimenting with blobs and squiggles: "I didn't know what I was doing, and finally I decided I wasn't going to find out, so I chucked the whole lot into the fireplace...