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...second biggest bank, New York's Chase Manhattan. On the strength of his name alone, David Rockefeller is entitled to sit with the powerful, but as head of the Chase he is much more?he is a prime mover in a profession that since the days of the Medici has heavily shaped the course of the world's economic affairs...
...Template. Catherine de' Medici decreed that women should strive for a waist measurement of 13 inches. Sophia Loren sets the template...
...Amid speculation that Migratory Medici Huntington Hartford, 50. was in a nesting mood again, ex-Second Wife Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 31, weighed in with some advice for her rumored replacement, Philadelphia Model Diane Brown, 22. Counseled the onetime cigarette girl who turned painter-actress under the spreading A. & P.: "Don't become just another project of Hunt's. You can become a sort of child of his -a spoiled child. It seems strange now, that after twelve years of marriage to Hunt, I knew nothing about cleaning house, paying bills or doing the shopping." . - "I have gone...
Last week Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mortimer Caplin indicated that he was tiring of the Medici role. Henceforth, he declared, his field agents would insist that all appraisals on donated works of art would have to conform to realistic market value. Warned Caplin: "The service is not required to accept appraisals merely because they were prepared by 'expert appraisers...
...still not too sure of the marriage." Small wonder. The marriage in question was Kress's gift to the National Gallery of 416 paintings and 35 sculptures from his own beloved collection-the beginning of the biggest art giveaway program since the Palatine Electress Anna Maria Ludovica, a Medici, gave her family's vast collection to the state of Tuscany...