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Financially Strapped. Moyers' first offer from Newsday President Harry F. Guggenheim, who is 76 and has no heirs, came last August. Moyers said no, but Guggenheim tried twice more. By the third time (in mid-October), Moyers' older brother James had committed suicide. Bill, a father of three himself, took over financial support of the family, along with that of his mother and father and several of his wife's relatives. On his $30,000-a-year White House salary, he was strapped...
...celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum last week opened an exhibit concentrating on Kandinsky's Hinter-glasbilder, works painted in a folk art tradition on the reverse side of glass panes. These highlight both Kandinsky's delight in folk imagery and his inexorable surge toward nonobjective...
Died. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, first wife of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson and mother of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim (editor and publisher of Long Island's Newsday until her death in 1963), a Chicago patrician who did her best to lead her husband's life, hunting big game, flying with the Wright Brothers, finally divorced Captain Joe in 1938 and returned to a secluded life of gardening and charities; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago...
Concluded Canaday: "With four of our museums-the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney and the Jewish Museum-giving us shoddier and shoddier exhibitions as they compete with one another in the contemporary field, where there is not enough legitimate material to go around, and with the Metropolitan Museum half comatose in the field of temporary exhibitions, and with the excellent Morgan Library and Asia House too small (and too specialized) to accommodate most major exhibitions, New York is no longer in a position to pat itself on the back...
...that the Captain is very worried. The Sun will publish in less populous Suffolk County and make no home deliveries in Nassau, where Newsday is strongest. Guggenheim has even taken Sun Publisher Gardner Cowles III on a tour of the Newsday plant to show him how a successful suburban paper operates. Even so, the Captain has increased his own Suffolk staff and embarked on a $3,000,000 expansion in Nassau that will enable him to enlarge his paper from 160 pages to 192 early next year and boost circulation to as much as 600,000. Last week he announced...