Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Big Top. Circus Master John Ringling never could resist a painting big enough to display under a big top, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has contributed a swashbuckling, 7½-ft Veronese. Dime Store King Samuel Kress left one collection of Italian paintings to the National Gallery-and a second to 18 different museums around the U.S., three of whom sent contributions to the CRIA exhibit. While most works acquired by collectors have by now come to rest in museums, some at the Wildenstein still reside in private homes. A charming...
...Enfant in 1791. No architect affirms this more staunchly than San Francisco's Nathaniel Owings, senior member of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He has good reason to: he is chairman of the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue and is also responsible for drafting a master plan for developing the mile-long Capitol Mall. In both cases his aim is the same: "A return to the simple but grand design of two centuries...
...grain, coal and pulpwood, which make up much of the railroad business, the increases average about 3%-somewhat less than the carriers requested. Even that much may not be allowed ultimately. Terming last week's decision a temporary one, the ICC ordered the roads to draw up a master tariff list, which the commission will examine and make final changes on in October...
...John." Last week, as the railroads convened in Chicago to begin working out their master tariff list, even some of the authorized increases seemed likely to be dropped. The Chicago & North Western announced that it will not add on the penny-per-hundred-lbs. increase in grain rates allowed by the ICC; the decision left competing Midwest railroads little choice but to main tain their old rate. Similarly, the Southern Railway said that old rates will remain on the grain hauled in its 100-ton "Big John" hopper cars...
...works. These performers were not out to compete with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. They were not out to play for the audience, or for the critics, half so much as to play for themselves, to wind up a summer's intensive immersion in three masterpieces by three master composers - in short, to experience greatness tangibly...