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...appreciate your restraint in not blue-penciling Phyllis McGinley's remarks about Bulwer-Lytton...
...Bulwer-Lytton. As the daughter and second child of an unsuccessful and fiddle-footed land speculator, she grew up with no settled home. She was born in Ontario, Ore., but her childhood memories begin with Iliff, Colo. ("It looked like a stage set for High Noon"), where the McGinleys settled awhile to farm an acreage that her father had been unable to sell...
...miserable as it might sound. Admits Phyllis: "We were land poor-the kind of poor that had mahogany furniture and solid silver. We had books, and I read a great deal. I am probably the only person left living who has read the entire works of Bulwer-Lytton-when I was ten years old. We had 35 volumes of them...
...second structure for exhibitions was bankrolled by Savings and Loan Tycoon Bart Lytton. The permanent collection hangs in the last pavilion-four tiers of balconies around an 85-ft.-high interior court, which was due to the generosity of Financier Howard Ahmanson...
Hunt Foods recently gave a public library to Fullerton, Calif., where its cannery is located, and the Chase Manhattan Bank is helping to restore Wall Street's Federal Hall and a colonial town on Staten Island. President Bart Lytton of Lytton Savings & Loan Assoc. has commissioned a $60,000 work by Sculptor Henry Moore for Los Angeles' Art Museum Plaza...