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This oil was one of a set of the first Presidents done by Stuart on commission from a Boston picture dealer. The set was in storage in the Library of Congress when in 1851, a fire destroyed all except the Monroe portrait and that of President James Madison. Eventually, the Monroe oil came into the possession of Seth Low, president of Manhattan's Columbia University (1890-1901) and second mayor of New York City (1902-04), who bequeathed it to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum took possession of the painting in 1929, in what...
...Good Feeling." In what came to be called the "Virginia Dynasty," Madison succeeded Jefferson and Monroe succeeded Madison almost as a matter of course. Madison served as Jefferson's Secretary of State and Monroe as Madison...
...retreat was done by Designer John Garden Campbell, and the glass-walled pavilion near Inverness, Calif., by Francis E. Leighton. Lily Saarinen's Cape Cod cabin is by Olav Hammarstrom, the Pound Ridge home of John Straus by Edward L. Barnes, and Burton Tremaine's house in Madison, Conn., was converted by Philip C. Johnson...
...university. Litchfield spent $100,000 investigating the case of a professor accused of being a Communist fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring pollsters to gauge Pitt's public "image." The Madison Avenue approach appalls academic purists. But it turns out that among the leading citizenry of Pittsburgh, 65% now feel "highly favorable" to the emerging university...
...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...