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...people: $50 a day. Non-members may come only once; unless they are invited to become members or visit a member, that's the last they see of Mill Reef. Most of the members' houses are unpretentious, costing from $30,000 to $80,000. An exception: Paul Mellon, who is spending a reputed $2,000,000 on his house, which is still unfinished. Antigua is in the throes of a hotel explosion-nine new ones have opened in the last year and a half, making about 15 first-class hotels with some 500 rooms...
Died. Arthur Vining Davis, 95, terrible-tempered tycoon who ran up a fortune in aluminum and reinvested it in Florida industry, becoming one of the world's wealthiest men, worth an estimated $350 million; in Miami. With backing from Banker Brothers Andrew and Richard B. Mellon, Davis helped found Aluminum Co. of America in 1907 as the nation's first aluminum producer, became Alcoa president in 1910, board chairman in 1928, and ruling with desk-thumping autocracy, built Alcoa into an industrial giant with assets of $503 million before retiring from active management in 1948 to start...
...name of Lord Duveen will always be associated with the names of Mellon and Morgan and Kress, and today it is still true that a Duveen customer should be something more than merely solvent. Prices range from $850 for an illuminated manuscript page from a 15th century book to $500,000 for a Giorgione. But buying an old master is not a prerequisite for enjoying the treasures Lord Duveen stashed away during his incredible career. On a Saturday the gallery is usually jammed with art lovers of every age and income, perhaps dropping in to see a small but appealing...
...Continent as the "English style"-a bow to the fact that though artists in many lands used the medium, none used it with greater enthusiasm than the painters of England. This month the National Gallery in Washington opens an exhibition of 200 English drawings and watercolors from the Mellon collection and from twelve British museums and the Queen's private collection (see color). There will be few shows in 1962 more pleasing...
Bigger than Mellon. Until Kress, Duveen's best customer was Andrew Mellon, who built the National Gallery and gave it his collection. But the collection was not big enough to fill all those marble halls, and the story goes that it was Duveen who planted in Kress's head the idea of the great gallery gift ("You're not going to let Mellon have the whole National Gallery to himself, are you. Mr. Kress?"). Even after the first gift, the Kress Foundation kept buying, in 1951 started adding other institutions to its gift list. To qualify...