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...Detroit, would be an excellent way to celebrate the Detroit Institute's 75th anniversary. After all, the institute owned 10% of all the Flemish art in the U.S. King Baudouin was approached, and agreed to be a patron; so did President Eisenhower. Museums from San Francisco to Munich lent works, and the U.S. Navy was called in to carry the U.S. loans across the Atlantic. This week, when the show completes its run in Europe, it will be packed into air-conditioned trucks that will head with motorcycle escorts to Saint-Nazaire, where a Navy transport is waiting...
...line, there was a special elegance that was Johnson's own. His famous private houses, like the Rockefeller guest house in Manhattan and his own glass house in New Canaan, Conn., were graced with pavilions, pools and inner courts. Simplicity and luxury went together, and the houses lent themselves to both casualness and ceremony...
Plastered on $250,000. As top man at Prudential for 14 years, strait-laced Carrol Shanks, 61, has long had official dealings with Georgia-Pacific. The Pru has lent Georgia-Pacific more than $50 million, now finances about a quarter of the company's long-term debt. In turn the Prudential, which owns 90,900 shares of Georgia-Pacific common stock, has profited richly from the company's rapid rise (sales up 281%, profits 1.177% since 1953). In 1956 Shanks became a Georgia-Pacific director...
...trompe-l'æil, each of the gallery's rooms is furnished with authentic Early American chests, tables and secretaries. Guarding the gallery's main entrance is the 10 ft. pine statue of Justice, which stood atop the courthouse in Barnstable, Mass, and was lent by Shelburne to the Brussels World's Fair...
...harpsichordia ("Why do you prefer bourbon to Scotch?"), but admits that "there is a simplicity about it" that appeals strongly to his children, who are being raised without any knowledge of the upstart piano. Most harpsichord buffs have a strong proprietary sense. When a New Orleans amateur, Charles Hazlett, lent his harpsichord to touring Virtuoso Fernando Valenti, the visitor was amazed. Said Valenti: "It's almost like lending somebody your wife...