Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently, White House aides all at once told how much Johnson has always admired Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer (The True Believer). Actually Johnson had never met Hoffer, and nobody had heard him mention his name, but the reason for his sudden enthu siasm was clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point...
Penelope, daughter of wealthy English Businessman Ronald Tree and former United States Delegate to the United Nations Marietta Peabody Tree, likes being a model because it is fun. Says she: "I've met people I love whom I probably would never have met otherwise, and I think the camera is the newest and most exciting implement since the paintbrush." Besides, although the gesture is scarcely necessary, modeling will allow her to pay her own way through Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a freshman. "It's an easy way to get money," says Penelope...
Kooky Doll. It has certainly been easy so far. "I met Dick Avedon at a party last February," explains Penelope, "and he asked me to do some test shots." The result is a striking 14-page spread of pictures by Photographer Avedon in the current Vogue, which exposes Penelope's charms in-among other outfits-a partially unbuttoned pants suit, a hip-revealing dress by Rudi Gernreich and thigh-high fun furs. But no matter what the rig, Penelope animates them all with her special gamine charm and kooky doll features...
...Met's Tom Moving agrees, points to Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Gateway Arch and the new Picasso in Chicago (TIME, Aug. 25) as evidence of the trend toward monumental sculpture. "We're slowly coming back," Hoving believes, "to sculpture as something to be interested in. It's part of the conversational environment. As more cities solve their problems, they will want to make things look better with sculpture." But if sculpture is going to take its rightful place in the modern cityscape, it will have to acquire for itself the very qualities of scale, materials...
...thirty teaching fellows, culled from various departments met Monday to accept or reject the files of five applicants for admission to Harvard College...