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Last week, during a one-day artists' strike against "war, racism and repressions," Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jewish Museum, and more than 50 galleries were closed. When the Metropolitan refused to shut its doors, some 150 strike participants staged a sit-out on the front steps. The Guggenheim Museum remained open, but stripped its paintings from the walls, and shrouded its sculpture lest they be damaged...
When word of the imminent sale of Long Island's Newsday first leaked to the press (TIME, March 23), the main opposition came from six minority stockholders (49%), all heirs of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. Emotionally committed to Alicia Patterson's strong sense of local identity and control, they were not eager to submit to absentee landlordship. Last week the majority stockholder (51%), Captain Harry Guggenheim, announced that he had indeed sold, for a reported $33 million. "I believe," said the Captain, that the sale "will assure the independence of Newsday." Said Joseph Albright...
...addition to concern over how much control the purchaser, the relatively conservative Los Angeles Times Mirror Co.,* plans to exert over the liberal Long Island daily, the transfer of Guggenheim's 51% raises some intriguing questions. Why did he choose to sell at all? The answer: A conservative, Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift the paper had taken under his hand-picked heir apparent, Publisher Bill Moyers. Ailing at 79, the Captain also wanted to ensure that the six heirs of his late wife would not gain control. Alicia Patterson was the force behind the paper...
...World War II and Korea. He was a thriving advertising executive, but he gradually came to realize that he was "living half a life." At 38, he dropped his successful career to become a fledgling poet. "It was desperation," he recalls. "So I went on relief and got a Guggenheim." After some lean times, six volumes of verse and several short-term teaching stints, he finally settled in 1968 at the University of South Carolina. The money ($26,000) and the instant tenure were right. So was the proximity to his beloved wilderness, "a subject of endless interest and rejoicing...
Sizer's study will be financed by a Guggenheim Fellowship. He will spend his time writing a book analyzing the process of change in American public schools...