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...company with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio and other worthies, Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred...
...nine attributed to him now hanging in the U.S., only three are authenticated beyond all reasonable doubt (see color). In 1948 Manhattan's Frick Collection bought The Education of the Virgin-a painting dominated not so much by the young Virgin or the brooding St. Anne as by the unearthly light shed by a candle that is partially shielded by the girl's translucent hand. In the Cleveland Museum's Repentant St. Peter, the spell is cast by a lantern that bathes St. Peter's ordeal in a glow of searing red that seems...
Voices were shrill in the tiny country wedged between Austria and Switzerland. The argument: Would Liechtenstein (pop. 16,000) be represented at the Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley next month? No, thundered Chief of Government Alexander Frick, worried lest Liechtenstein's honor be compromised by a last-place finish at the games. "Those who come in last have the real Olympic spirit," countered Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, Chief of Mission for the Liechtenstein Winter Olympic Team. "I wouldn't dream of winning." Added the baron darkly: "There will be a revolution if they...
...other hand, some optimistic secondhand dealers argue that the buyer in the $2,000 class will prefer a roomy, late-model car to a compact. "The man who has been in the habit of buying a luxury car will not buy a compact," says Kansas City Salesman Henry Frick. "He'll still come to us -especially if he has a big family...
...sweet smell of success wafted over Chicago's Comiskey Park. With just three weeks left to play, the go-go White Sox were still in first place, and Commissioner Ford Frick had flashed the sign to start preparing World Series tickets. Even the San Francisco Giants, leaders of the National League, were giving the White Sox a vote of confidence by sending a scout to look them over...