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...price Mellon paid was not officially disclosed, but it was no secret that it was the highest ever for a French painting. Reliable sources put it at $1,600,000 -$50,000 more than Norton Simon paid for Renoir's Le Pont des Arts in 1968. It reflected-and will encourage -the hugely inflated prices collectors seem willing to pay for Impressionist and post-Impressionist painting...
...Kahn Jr. '37 of the New Yorker spent a year here doing research for his book. It was originally titled It Can't Happen Here: so much for analysis. Harvard Through Change and Storm (New York: W. W. Norton, $7.50), as the revised version was called, is a pleasant enough romp through Harvard lore, past and present-the kind of books that gets written every five years or so, and written well every 20. You're probably due for one about...
EDITH KANT NORTON Alplaus...
...third of it on TV and radio, to reach a runoff election for the Republican gubernatorial nomination; Nelson Rockefeller will spend either $1,500,000 or $2,500,000-depending on whether one accepts his figures or his opponent's-to stay in Albany. Norton Simon spent $1,300,000 in a quixotic attempt to become the Republican candidate for United States Senator from California. Howard Metzenbaum found out how much it costs to take a Senate nomination away from former Astronaut John Glenn: nearly...
...outstanding attorney in the bond claim field." He was an insurance man, the vice-president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity. Only after he had won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bollingen Prize did his colleagues at the office know that he wrote poetry: he refused Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton chair in 1955 because it would "precipitate the retirement" from business he wanted "so much to put off." Clearly, here is a man who led two lives at once; clearly, here is a biography that ought to be written...