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Last week a plump Montclair, N.J., housewife was working hard at closing the string gap: aided by a Guggenheim grant, Carleen Maley Hutchins was devising the members of a new family of seven stringed instruments-including a vertical viola...
Other stops on the tour ending April 7 in New London, Conn, are Sanders Junction, Penn.: Montclair, N.J.; Hestings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; and New Canaan, Conn. The performance in Sanders Junction will be for the benefit of the Sarah Louis Home for Crippled Children, and the Hastings Teachers' Association will benefit from the show's performance at Hastings-on-Hudson...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...
...them to their attic. One evening last spring, an art dealer got to talking to a member of the De Berdt family who casually mentioned that there were two early American paintings somewhere in his house. They were identified as Peale's, and the news was flashed to Montclair's alert director, Miss Kathryn Gamble, who promptly put in a bid. The paintings were covered with dust but otherwise unharmed-as crisp and clear as they were when they crossed the Atlantic 178 years...
Lost & Found. With a few notable exceptions-most regrettably, Albert Ryder, whose works are few and hard to come by-Montclair covers its field pretty well, from early primitives to such contemporaries as Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. It has a Whistler, an Eakins, a Cassatt, a Prendergast, two Homers, and twelve paintings by George Inness, who lived in Montclair most of his life. It has a Portrait of Caleb Whitefoord by Gilbert Stuart that was at one time thought to be lost; mentioned in a London auction catalogue in 1834, it was not heard of again until a former...