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...News. All over the U.S., art has become big news, and a public conditioned to the excitement of recent museum spectaculars has responded in droves. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo last year drew 782,800 visitors -more than New York's Museum of Modern Art or Guggenheim Museum, more than Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, more than Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, more than Florence's Uffizi, more than London's Tate Gallery-and five times as many as its own previous high...
Died. Otto Harbach, 89, courtly dean of U.S. librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund...
What a happy choice for Man of the Year! My congratulations on the splendid article, which did full credit to the outstanding Christian of the 20th century. I write as a Protestant with a John Knox background...
...Soviet ships altered their course to avoid collision with the U.S. Navy, a U.S. businessman in Moscow was negotiating a trade deal with Soviet officials. Suddenly, their talks were interrupted by a phone call from the Kremlin: Nikita Khrushchev would be happy to receive William E. Knox, president of Westinghouse International Co. Knox had not asked for the interview, so Khrushchev, as he often does, was obviously trying to use an American visitor to pipe some of his views into the U.S. This week Knox revealed what was said, and the account of the three-hour session once again showed...
...discuss foreign trade." Khrushchev began, almost at the start. He criticized U.S. restrictions on strategic exports to the Soviet Union, noted that even a lead pencil could be put to military use in drawing a map. When he discussed a new Soviet policy granting manufacturing licenses to foreign industry, Knox interrupted to ask facetiously for a license to make "the latest type of Soviet rocket booster." Khrushchev laughed and jokingly suggested trading design information on Soviet boosters for designs of U.S. nuclear submarines and Polaris missiles, both of which he said he admired. He added that he would not give...