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Like an Oyster. The church cost $1,250.000 (Wright's fee: $137,500). As with another latter-day Wright design, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, criticisms are harsh. To some observers it suggests a stadium, to others a brooding oyster or a flying saucer. "I can't decide whether it looks like it just got here or like it's just about to leave," muttered one viewer. Another critic grumbles that it is "too small for a bullfight, too large for a cockfight...
Onto the Floor. Born Dorothy Jean Guggenheim in Cambridge, Ohio, she took the stage name Lisa Howard, toured in road shows before breaking into TV. She married twice, produced two daughters, now twelve and five, quit acting last year because "I wasn't fulfilling myself." She laid siege to the Mutual Broadcasting System, finally wangled credentials to cover the Democratic nominations in Los Angeles. "They simply threw me onto the Convention floor," says Lisa. She picked herself up quickly, nabbed 38 top Democrats for interviews. "Has anybody turned you down?'' asked California Governor Pat Brown admiringly...
...that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; Robert Hale, curator of American painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...kill myself for artists. The hell of it is I hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either...
...learned newspapering at the knee of her father, the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News (see below), took for granted that she would receive the courtesy of an answer. After all, she had supported Kennedy for president, while Alicia's husband, Harry Guggenheim, president of Newsday, voted for Nixon...