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...Like the Sphinx, La Grande Jatte does not travel. Since the painting entered the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926, it has been lent just once, to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City for a Seurat retrospective in 1958. After it arrived there, a fire broke out in MOMA's galleries. The painting was unharmed, but the trustees of the Art Institute decided it would never leave home again. Even the great Seurat touring retrospective in 1991 had to do without it. Thirteen years later, the Art Institute is making up for that...
...YORK—Shane Hachey was doing his part Sunday afternoon to make sure Harvard lent a veil of respectability to the protests at the Republican Convention...
...helping. Unions disagree: BA "didn't just cut the flab," railed Ed Blisset of the GMB. "It cut into the bone as well." But with quieter winter months approaching, "shareholders would probably prefer [BA] run on edge this time of year," counters one airline analyst. Even CEO Rod Eddington lent a hand at Heathrow late last week - a great way to spend a summer holiday. - By Adam Smith The Spitzer Treatment Britain's GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reached a $2.5 million settlement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over allegations that it withheld information about the safety of antidepressant Paxil...
...duties of a Manhattan baby in those days was two-end candle-burning: study all day at school and, in the evenings, frequent the better nightclubs. Phyllis lent her young radiance to such swank boites as the Stork Club and El Morocco, where, she said, Errol Flynn once proposed to her. (She didn?t say what he proposed.) ?By her midteens, Phyllis was regularly getting her photo in the New York Times as a bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning...
DIED. BERNARD GRANT, 83, longtime soap-opera star who also lent his voice to foreign films dubbed into English, including Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns; in New York City. Best known for playing Dr. Paul Fletcher on The Guiding Light for 13 years and Steve Burke on One Life to Live during the 1970s, he was also the unseen film voice for such actors as Yves Montand and Marcello Mastroianni...