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...Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, were inducted into the Academy, which includes in its membership author John Hersey, poetess Marianne Moore, and Edward Hopkins, the artist. Edward Albee, playwright, was inducted with Galbraith and Sert at a luncheon...
...much reporting-Time Inc. President James Linen, who was traveling in Thailand at the time. The monarch talked candidly for an hour on subjects that ranged from Communist subversion to modern painting. The talks went so well that the TIME men were asked to stay on for luncheon and more conversation...
Settled in Washington and married to a fellow art enthusiast, Marjorie Acker, he was soon buying selectively throughout the ages, from an El Greco to a classic Renoir such as Luncheon of the Boating Party, picked up in 1923 for an adventurous $125,000. Bonnard became a special love (he owned 26). As his collection grew (it totaled some 2,000 paintings when he died), the Phillipses in 1930 were crowded out of their home, but they maintained it as a museum with its Oriental rugs, comfortable chairs and ashtrays, and no cordoned-off areas or guards...
...Secretary of Defense spoke at a luncheon of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, attended by about 500 U.S. and Canadian editors...
...frigid Gaullist disregard of the need for French industrial expansion-a common complaint of voters in last December's close presidential election. "The image of the industrial north as a self-sufficient, rich region is little more than a myth," complained a Chamber of Commerce speaker at the luncheon for De Gaulle. "The internationalizing of modern Europe should force France into relying on the few strong regions she possesses, giving them a better chance of catching up with the European industrial level. Due to their economic policies, Belgium and Holland have attracted a great number of foreign businesses...