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...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner, amasser of a magnificent Renaissance art collection, whose portrait was painted by Sargent and whose tea was sipped by Henry James, was in fact a most improper Bostonian-as Mrs. Tharp's sparkling biography proves...
Nerve Center. The responsibility for directing the biggest part of this unprecedented involvement in the education affairs of the country falls to the Department of Health, Education & Welfare, which is run by Secretary John Gardner, 53. A onetime psychology professor, Gardner was president of the Carnegie Corporation, an educational foundation that has distributed $347 million in grants since 1911; he left that post this year to take the job at HEW. The man who is directly in charge of administering the Federal Government's education programs is Gardner's Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight...
Keppel regularly runs through a nonstop, eleven-hour working day, conferring with the President or with HEW Secretary Gardner, calling weekend staff meetings, visiting schools, addressing meetings of the Chamber of Commerce or the United Jewish Appeal, or just about any interested group that shows a willingness to discuss the nation's education programs. He is for ever torn between the desire to proselytize and the need to be at his desk. "When a Congressman calls," he says, "I want to be there...
...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to Bohemian girl. A very readable biography...
This winter, for instance, Paul Newman will enter his 41st year. So will Jack Lemmon. While nobody was looking, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando and Doris Day turned 41, Ava Gardner 42, Judy Garland 43. Montgomery Clift and Mickey Rooney are 44. Robert Stack has reached 46, Joey Bishop and William Holden 47. Dean Martin and Raymond Burr have hit 48, Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas 49, Ingrid Bergman 50. Loretta Young could now be properly billed as Loretta Middle-Aged at 52. And as for Gary Grant...