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...Midwest, is each year becoming more of a cultural center as well. Next week the Chicago Art Institute will stage a show unrivaled among the new year's exhibitions for size and sophistication: 120 pictures by three extraordinary American expatriates-John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler. All three made their fame in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; after their deaths, the reputations of all three declined. Perhaps because they were restless folk, who elected to live abroad, none of the three ever quite matched the greatness of their deep-rooted contemporaries, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins...
...gentleman." But Archie, too, had lost his humility. Bandleader Bleyer had spent part of a recent vacation by going out to Chicago for his own record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...
...Charles S. Bridges, 50, vice president in charge of sales and advertising of Libby, McNeill & Libby, third largest (after H. J. Heinz Co., California Packing Corp.) U.S. food-canning concern (last year's net sales: $177 million), succeeded the late Daniel W. Creeden as president and general manager. Bridges came to Libby as a salesman in 1923, rose steadily to become vice president...
...does like to make one's Mummy just as nice as possible." said James McNeill Whistler after he finished his most famous painting. Whistler's dignified, peaceful portrait of his mother, which he called Arrangement in Grey and Black, was nice enough to gain it lasting world esteem, make it the best-known painting by an American. But most Americans have never seen it in the original...
...Fran & Ollie) who plays the part of a gabby female. The three show-stopping features are 1) "Memory Time" (mostly sentimental poems), 2) "Prayer Time" (strictly nonsectarian), and 3) "The March Around the Table," in which the kids in the audience play follow-the-leader, led by Sam Cowling. McNeill also interviews selected guests, ranging from such visiting stars as Bob Hope to such personalities as Elmer Feagin, who walked from Texarkana to Chicago to pay off a bet. Don, who classes himself as an introvert, sees his job as simply being friendly and letting the guests do the talking...