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Throughout the week, Ford entertained a steady stream of Senators and Congressmen at the White House (see The Presidency) to try to persuade them to support his tariff plan. He was constantly conferring and commiserating with aides involved on the Hill, such as his deputy assistant for legislative affairs, Max Friedersdorf. But it is doubtful if the President tilted far enough to suit the Democrats, who have found little public support for his energy program and no end of opposition. Senators Edward Kennedy and Henry Jackson have already offered alternative programs of their...
...million was collected in the past six months and is second only to that of George Wallace among prospective Democratic presidential candidates. Jackson's early contributors have included Leonard Davis, director of the Colonial Perm Group Inc. of New York, and his wife, who gave $6,000; Max Karl, president of MGIC Investment Corp. of Milwaukee, $3,000; Investment Banker William R. Salomon of New York, $1,000; and Charles Wohlstetter, chairman of Continental Telephone Corp. of Chantilly...
Ophuls. This week the Harvard-Epworth Church, where you see movies from the pews, will begin a retrospective of films by Max Ophuls (with the exception of his most famous, Lola Montes, which is showing at the Brattle later this spring). This Sunday evening is his Letter From an Unknown Woman, with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan (1948), which will be shown with a rare film clip of Mariene Dietrich singing for the English version of The-Blue Angel, called I'm Falling in Love Again...
Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...
...first time since 1943 the museum is exhibiting Winthrop's entire collection of ancient Chinese jades. The exhibition seems to have been designed with Winthrop in mind and it reveals much about what he sought as a collector. Daniel Robbins, in the foreword to Max Loehr's completely illustrated, scholarly catalogue of the exhibition, remarks that Winthrop "believed in an artistic faculty essentially independent of time and place; he also felt that the making of beautiful and perfect objects utterly transcended their function in a strictly utilitarian sense as evidence of a way of life." The more than four hundred...