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After doing his best to keep his hometown troubles out of the papers (he urged newsmen not to cover the school integration story for three days), New Orleans' handsome Mayor de Lesseps ("Chep") Morrison made news himself in Manhat tan. In town to attend a conference of U.S. mayors, in a trice he found himself in the Stork Club and the clinging arms of Perennial Siren Zsa Zsa Gabor. Later, asked what they had talked about, Zsa Zsa seemed surprised at the question. "Of course," she said, "we talked about the problems of the South...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
Take It Seriously. Other off-Broadway theaters scattered around lower Manhat tan and Greenwich Village are serving as useful a purpose as the Phoenix. Like summer-stock houses, they are the training ground for a vast number of young actors, artists and designers...
...with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
Waldo Peirce, grey-bearded, booming impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...