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...economist and the new Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Coombs started by withdrawing a new $9,600,000 budget request for the center, then got the regents to call in some able pulse takers, including Presidents Clark Kerr of the University of California and John Gardner of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Their advice: make the center semi-autonomous and give it a chancellor ranking with President Snyder; concentrate on technical graduate studies in the university's strong fields; and make sure that one-third of the students (2,000 by 1965) are mature...
...Stage Is Set. Last week the regents completed the center's reorganization with the appointment of Chancellor Spoehr, whom Carnegie President Gardner calls "the best man for the job in Hawaii." Trained at Stanford and Chicago, Anthropologist Spoehr is famed for having enriched a remarkable center of Polynesian artifacts at the Bishop Museum. (One item: a royal cloak left by Kamehameha I that is made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that...
From his earliest expatriate days, when he knew James Joyce and Gertrude Stein at Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into...
...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
...John Gardner, president, Carnegie Corp. of New York LL.D...