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...rector title to all wrecks and whales washed ashore on Manhattan. Early communicants included Alexander Hamilton, who is buried in the graveyard, George Washington, and even Pirate William Kidd, whose affiliation is commemorated by a plaque in the luxuriously carpeted vestry room. Later, such wealthy worshipers as John Jacob Astor contributed more marketable assets than whales to Trinity. Today, a vestry that includes New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and George A. Murphy, board chairman of the Irving Trust Co., carefully shepherds an investment portfolio that helps pay the salaries of a 150-man staff, including 25 priests...
...Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed back into his limousine. Johnson spent the night at the Nevele Country Club, a resort on the fringe of the Borscht Belt in the Catskills...
...JACOB LATEINER, a vintage pianist who speaks of wines the way fellow musicians speak of him: "The very great ones need time to develop; they must mature in their own time." See Music...
...played it so beautifully at Aspen was 38-year-old Jacob Lateiner, whom most professionals would call "a musician's musician," which is another way of saying that he lacks the glamour and glitter so dazzling to most nonprofessionals among concert audiences. The pros, on the other hand, call him one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven since Artur Schnabel. "The remarkable quality about Lateiner's playing," says Composer Elliott Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector...
...hard way. Some, like Frederic Remington, rode with the cavalry; others, like Charles Russell, rode the range as cowboys. Each immortalized the West he knew. Albert Bierstadt portrayed the Rockies; George Caleb Bingham the riverboatmen he first knew as a boy on the Missouri. To William Jacob Hays, the buffalo was already a hulking ghost in the dawn of a new day, while James Walker captured another vanishing species, the Spanish vaquero...