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...track p~ut up a $269,395 stake for 20 of the U.S.'s best two-year-olds. Long-shot (14-1) winner of what thus became the richest horse race in history: the Cain Hoy Stable's Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' ¶At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, was retired to stud with a farewell parade around...
...less aggressively oriental than this composer's usual efforts; John Lessard's Toccata, a work of driving insistence that makes full use of the harpsichord's jangling, percussive qualities; Virgil Thomson's Sonata No. 4, a neatly drawn portrait in sound (of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim) composed in an enigmatically old-fashioned style * and Vittorio Rieti's Sonata all' Antica...
...years, Frank Lloyd Wright, the grand, infuriating and tireless old nautilus of U.S. architecture, has built ever more amazing mansions, put ever vaster domes over such projects as a mortuary in San Francisco, a chapel for Florida Southern College, a laboratory tower for Johnson's Wax. When the Guggenheim Foundation asked him in 1945 to build an art museum for Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, he designed what might be taken as a monument to himself. It would be shaped, he said, "like the chambered nautilus." The picture gallery would consist of a quarter-mile ramp, slowly rising...
...Guggenheim Foundation accepted his design (cost: $2,000,000), but New York City authorities prosaically declared that the museum would violate building laws; among other things, the building's 6-ft. overhang was against regulations.* Last week Wright, who has described the building code as being "for fools," showed up at a hearing in Manhattan. He grandly agreed to eliminate the overhang, made plans to appeal the other objections...
...Ambassador to Portugal, succeeding Careerman Cavendish Cannon: Colonel M. (for Meyer) Robert Guggenheim, 68, head of the copper-rich Guggenheim clan. A heavy contributor to the Eisenhower campaign, Bob Guggenheim is a noted Washington partygiver whose invitations are valued for the lavishness of the entertainment. His Rock Creek Park mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel...