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Paul Cezanne made his Portrait of the Artist's Father in 1866, when he was 27. For years it hung in the privacy of a mansion on the outskirts of Paris owned by the family of the French industrialist Auguste Pellerin, who was an assiduous collector of Cezannes. Some ten years ago Paul Mellon, son and heir of Andrew Mellon, saw it there and with the tenacity of true love, set out to buy it. An intricate mating dance of negotiations began in 1965 and culminated at a Washington press conference last week, when Mellon announced the gift...
Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
...Board members are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College; Louis W. Cabot '43, a Boston industrialist; John J. Iselin '56, vice president of Harper and Row; Donald Kennedy '52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; and Wade H. McCree Jr., a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit...
...time is September 1954. Spyros Skouras, Laurance Rockefeller and William Zeckendorf have just passed through an elaborate security screen to reach a Los Angeles meeting with the suspicious, secretive industrialist Howard Hughes. Through Skouras, Hughes has leaked his intention of selling his enormous holdings to devote the proceeds to medical research. Rockefeller, philanthropist and president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Zeckendorf at that time, the extraordinarily successful head of the Webb & Knapp real estate empire, have come out from New York...
...wheel of his racer Tree, Hansberger swooped down the ramp past two middle-aged competitors to record his second straight triumph in the "Big Boys" division of the annual Treasure Valley Soapbox Derby in Boise, Idaho. For senior racers who may hope to emulate him, the timber industrialist has sage advice: "As in many things in life, maintain a low silhouette...