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...paintings and Renaissance furniture was grandly laid out. Now the property of Robert Lehman (investment banking), the collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows a poignantly pensive Mary...
This week, 106 years after he wrote them, the words of the great patriarch of the Latter-day Saints came abundantly true. Some, 6,000 Mormons, led by President David O. McKay and ten of the Church's twelve Apostles, assembled atop a Los Angeles hill to lay the cornerstone of the largest (and eleventh) Mormon temple ever built...
...every Mormon temple will be performed: baptism and marriage-of the long dead as well as the living. Retroactive ceremonies in behalf of the dead, Mormons believe, help to bring salvation to the billions who have died during history with no knowledge of the Mormon faith. Thus the Latter-day Saints are famous for their genealogical diligence; teams fan out from Salt Lake City headquarters to search genealogies all over the world that the dead may be known and saved with the aid of the living. Similarly the "sealing ceremony" vicariously marries up couples of modern Mormons' ancestors-eventually...
Oscar Peterson Collates, No. 2 (Clef LP). Unquenchable Jazz Pianist Peterson plays eight numbers, turns a new facet in every one. In tameless he is a firm-footed bopster a la Lennie Tristano; in Until the Real Thing Comes Along he chuckles along like a latter-day Fats Waller; his How High the Moon is rhythmically soulful, with fistfuls of notes; he toys with I Get a Kick Out of You like a playful kitten...
Savage Play has only a few other things to offer besides literary mud. There are some sharply evocative sketches of French aristocrats in the old-fashioned countryside, and of French Protestants in a prim, latter-day Huguenot Parisian flat. And there is the strange children's world in which cruelty is mixed with utter innocence. The novel won the 1950 Prix Goncourt and sold 100,000 copies in France. But then, French tastes have always been rather special...