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...months ago, Washington's National Gallery of Art faced its approaching 25th birthday with no idea of how to celebrate it. Almost as a matter of reflex, Director John Walker turned to the gallery's president, Paul Mellon. Nothing could be more natural. He is the son of Andrew Mellon, many-time Secretary of the Treasury, whose personal fortune built the gallery. In his own right, Paul Mellon, along with his wife and his sister, Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce (first wife of U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce), is a collector of the first order...
...Since my father founded the gallery, naturally I have a personal interest in it," Paul Mellon said. The Mellons decided that it was up to them to fete the occasion, and soon they were clearing out their homes in New York, Washington, Cape Cod and Virginia to fill twelve rooms in the National Gallery with 246 art works. No other U.S. family could have brought out from private stock such a handsome salute, ranging over 100 years of French painting from a Corot to a Bonnard. As they went on view last week, Mellon was delighted: "I haven...
...which Simon had moved in to improve Wheeling, Canada Dry and McCall Corp., Hunter proposed that Simon-who knows the corporate-acquisition route better than he knows the way home from his own office-help block the invaders. Simon, on advice of friends at Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank, accepted the invitation. Three Crucible directors stepped aside to make way for Simon men. Simon himself became Crucible's finance com mittee chairman...
Died. Sarah Mellon Scaife, 62, art patron and philanthropist, heiress to a share in the estimated $2.5 billion Mellon industrial and banking fortune, who in 1941 established the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (one of six similar Mellon foundations which have given away over $300 million), through which she donated $26 million to Pittsburgh universities, museums and charities; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh...
...purchase-is clearly aimed at stepping up Chase Manhattan's competition with First National City Bank, the second largest U.S. bank, which bought up half of Hilton's Carte Blanche in September. This week, after a two-month advertising barrage, Pittsburgh's two largest banks-the Mellon National and the Pittsburgh National-will expand their longtime competition to a new dimension by bringing out their own credit cards...