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...listening," Nelson Rockefeller told his hosts. "What's wrong with listening? This is the first time a North American has ever come listening." The heads of state of the seven Central American countries, whom the New York Governor visited last week on the first leg of a 23-nation, four-stage mission for President Nixon, had plenty to tell...
...Fellows' non-Harvard interests often converge on the same company. Since early in this century the Corporation has retained the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray as the University's legal counsel. During that time at least three Fellows--Thomas Nelson Perkins, Charles A. Coolidge, and Francis H. Burr--have been partners in Ropes & Gray. From 1954 to 1965, when Coolidge retired, he and Burr served as Fellows at the same time, Burr also sits on the Board of Directors of State Street Investment Corporation, whose relationship with Harvard's treasurer, George Bennett, is discussed below; Bennett, Burr, and Coolidge...
...useless effort. When McLoone recieved the Nelson Unsung Hero Award, for his overshadowed performances in the two-mile, he mentioned that he had expected to awarded the "Unheroed Singer" award, in tribute to his legendary entertainment at the Eliot Lounge...
...soul ships-and other primitive sculptures-from Africa, Oceania and the Americas. All were on loan from the Museum of Primitive Art, which Rockefeller founded in 1957 and endowed with his collection. Since then, the museum has been expanded considerably, most notably by the Asmat carvings collected by Nelson's son Michael before he was lost off the coast of New Guinea in 1961. This week it puts on view 700 charming Mexican folk toys and figurines, festival masks and terra-cotta ewers that reflect Rockefeller's continuing interest and many southward junkets. The exhibit's gaiety...
Next week the Museum of Modern Art unveils the most engrossing display of all: more than 175 examples from Nelson Rockefeller's unparalleled collection of 1,500 modern paintings and sculptures. It is almost impossible to assess such an exhibition. It begins with landmark works of Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Mondriaan, Moore, Maillol and just about every famous name from the first half of the 20th century. But Rockefeller's tastes have not stagnated or calcified. Particularly in sculpture, he has cheerfully moved on to buy many younger minimal artists. Among his newest purchases...