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...could also be generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...
...hero in his Puerto Rican-Negro neighborhood where the "cop" is traditionally the enemy. His neighbors refused to speak to him; people stood outside his store muttering "Cop lover" or "Nigger hater," and customers no longer came to him. "Even people I helped, even people I lent money to pay the rent," he said, "they let me down." Negrón had been forced to sell his store for $400, even though he bought it for $5,000. He was left almost penniless, and his wife...
...somewhat unorthodox. Long considered a comer by party elders, he nominated Richard Nixon at the 1960 Republican Convention, and was the keynoter at the 1964 convention. At a convention that refused to condemn extremism, he vigorously denounced the John Birch Society in his keynote address. After the convention, he lent his name-and one of his key aides-to the Goldwater campaign. And when Lyndon Johnson came campaigning, Hatfield greeted him warmly and presented him with a basket of L.B.J. buttons. At the Governors' conference last July, Hatfield and Michigan's George Romney cast the only votes against...
...economy. Guinness employs 4,300 people, more than anyone else except the government. Indirectly, it supports 26,000 employees of 14,500 pubs-and 16,000 Irish farmers depend on Guinness to buy 100,000 tons of barley annually. The company pays $23 million yearly in excise taxes, has lent the government money to build peat-briquette factories, contributes to both University and Trinity colleges. At that rate, any Irish "pintman" who doesn't drink all the Guinness pints he can is practically traitorous...
...students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...