Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl salon . . . my charming girls will be more than happy to give...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The museum pays tribute to American Realist Edward Hopper with the second retrospective in 15 years. Some 180 oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings date from 1908, but the emphasis is on work done since 1950. Through...
...Fred") Frederics, 58, Manhattan milliner who teamed with John ("Mr. John") Harburger in 1929 to become the U.S.'s maddest hatters, charging up to $1,000 for their "creations," in 1949 went off on his own to make pyramids and be-flowered cartwheels for such as Hedda Hopper (she has some 75) and Gloria Swanson, not to mention the slouch-brimmed felt behind which Garbo is forever hiding; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The big "welcome back" that realism is getting these days must come as a surprise to Edward Hopper, who, at 82, is the best proof that it never went away. For nearly 60 years he has been hammering away at the nerve ends of despair with pictures of lonely trains leaving town, haunted-looking nudes, all-night lunch counters suffocating with silence. A 180-work retrospective. Through...
...nearly as risky as inviting Hedda Hopper, Sheilah Graham, Lolly Parsons and Dorothy Kilgallen to tea together, but Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller thought he could pull it off. For months he worked to arrange an unprecedented meeting of four past chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers with President Johnson. Though economists are a notably proud and prickly lot, Heller felt that the meeting would indicate that the former chairmen generally support the major points of the Administration's economic policy, and he hoped that acrimonious debate could be avoided. Last week President Johnson joined Heller and Economic...