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...week the museum had collected from private gifts two-thirds of the purchase price, which gives it full possession. By order of the mayor, this week is "Rembrandt for Denver Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role...
with low-priced cottons, has exported almost as much in the past five months as it did in the previous twelve. To plug the flow, the U.S. invoked a gentleman's agreement-approved by 16 countries in Geneva last summer-which says that a country whose textile markets are disrupted by another country's exports can sharply restrict them. With that in hand, the Administration last week shut off imports of eight kinds of Hong Kong cotton textiles, including sweaters, shirts, raincoats and ginghams...
Some of the individuals who were polled seemed to resent the questions. In reply to "Did you see the Rules Committee hearing on television?" one man retorted, "I don't know what you people do during the day, but I work." Another gentleman commented on the general nature of the inquiry: "These are not yes or no questions. You ask somebody who hasn't thought about it, and, sure, he'll give you yes and no answers...
...Last week, amid howls of protest from textile-shipping Japan and Hong Kong, the U.S. Tariff Commission was considering Kennedy's call for an 8½?-per-lb. tariff on imported cotton textiles. Simultaneously, the Administration was pressing 19 textile-producing foreign nations to sign a five-year gentleman's agreement that in effect would freeze foreign exports of cotton textiles to the U.S. at roughly 1961 levels. The White House is also considering a plan to slap similar restrictions on foreign wool, silk and synthetics...
...Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving on to Hollywood, he wrote unused film scripts for MGM, until he was fired. One of the scripts was titled The Gentleman Caller, which became The Glass Menagerie...