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...last year, to a total of 2,516,000, and membership at an alltime high of 38,769. Cunningham means to capitalize on the revival of interest with new electronic teaching devices for museumgoers and a search for new funds for still more acquisitions. Says he, only half in jest: "I am looking for a man who has $50 million and wants to give it away...
...only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will all come from the Far East...
...inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J...
Lionel Nowak, Bennington College music professor, owned no sculpture, but when he saw Tony Smith constructing his gangly Gracehoper-a title Smith lifted from Finnegans Wake-he commented, only half in jest, that it was just the thing for his backyard...
...joke was made on a broadcast Jan. 6, before I was involved in any negotiations with NBC. I was not represented by Mr. Grant at that time and, of course, could not have referred to him. The jest was made in the following context: I was about to leave on my vacation. I said: "Although I'll be off for a couple of weeks, part of me will remain here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer...