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...clothes are still available at May, but nowadays they have some style; May buyers in New York and Paris quickly pass on the latest fashion news. Aware of its customers' growing affluence, May now stocks more expensive soft goods, has broadened its range to include such luxuries as gourmet foods, costly pool tables and antique furniture...
...rush toward death," Motherwell says; but the trip obviously has its pleasures. Now married to his third wife, Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell commands top prices ($25,000-$30,000) for his large oils, is a gourmet who owns a Manhattan townhouse, vacations in Venice and Greece. And even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald...
...round school for some 40 hand-picked students, including Argentina's Martha Argerich, who this year won Poland's prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition (TIME, March 26). More like a Renaissance patron than a schoolmaster, Michelangeli also instructed his students in the selection of fine wines and gourmet foods ("I cannot teach if I cannot also teach the art of living and cooking...
...conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort is luring summer visitors with its gourmet restaurants, heated pools, and facilities for riding, hiking and fishing, and a jumping discotheque for the younger crowd...
...limit (the big new jets make the limit practically academic) and substitute a piece limit regardless of weight; last week TWA joined the trend by asking the CAB to approve its own more liberal system. In addition to the rapid growth of in-flight entertainment and the prevalence of "gourmet" meals on longer flights, the lines are going out of their way to make the cabin more like home. Western provides portable typewriters and dictating machines and a new, disposable plastic cocktail glass that permits eight extra minutes of drinking time on short flights. Continental has a flight director aboard...