Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tireless is the word for Showman Billy Rose. Fortnight ago, acting as head of the fine arts committee for Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them...
...dropped out of the race before election day because it had nothing special to offer the voters. Still Ben-Gurion stumped the land, promising pay raises to workers and civil servants and boasting of national progress. In a whirlwind 24-hour period, he finished his campaign by speaking in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa before going off to Sde Boker, his retreat in the Negev desert. He went confidently to bed before the polls closed, slept soundly until 7 next morning. Said his admiring wife Paula: "Ben-Gurion is like a radio. When he wants to go to sleep...
...former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting his name booed a modern combo off the stage, threw beer bottles and overturned TV cameras...
...bequest was one that any museum in the world would have been overjoyed to get, but only the new Jerusalem Museum of Art has so persuasive a booster as U.S. Showman Billy Rose. For years curators and directors have been angling for the Lipchitz plasters-so many, in fact, that the great sculptor hardly knew which way to turn. Then one day Lipchitz' old friend Billy came to call in his capacity as the chairman of the Jerusalem Museum's art committee. After talking with Billy. Lipchitz suddenly realized that to give his plasters to Israel...
...Jerusalem Museum of Art is quite a dream in itself. Now being built on top of a sawed-off hill near the Israeli Knesset, it will house not onlv the old Bezalel National Museum, which is the largest general museum in the Middle East, but also the Samuel Bronfman Archaeology Museum, a Shrine of the Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would...