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JOHN F. MAC!VER JR. Oakland, Calif...
Last week a Park retrospective opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D C having originated at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery and traveled to Boston and Nashville. Still ahead on its schedule -and new stops may be added-are the Oakland (Calif.) Art Museum, the University of Minnesota Gallery and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. The show samples Park's early figurative works, his Picasso period, and finally the later paintings that have become his hallmark (see color}. It is no fault of the organizers that, save for one, the abstractions are absent...
Having decided that she had not "done anything for ten years (I tried to learn to play bridge, but I just couldn't stand it)," Clarice ("Cookie") Knowland, 59 -third wife of Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland, 88, and stepmother of its current editor, ex-Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland -upped and registered for Journalism 4500 (Editing) at Alameda State College night school. To a standard questionnaire demanding whether she was interested in a career in journalism, the zippy ex-schoolmarm responded with already professional economy: "In a family...
...music and literature to government and foreign languages (Russian, Chinese, Spanish or French). Under a new "little-college" program, 20-odd students meet eight hours a week with two professors to discuss Western institutions and literature, from Plato to Faulkner. Though it still owns only 25,000 books, Oakland has just opened a new $1,500,000 library with space for 750,000 volumes. In hopes of boosting out-of-state enrollment to 25%, the school has built four new dormitories...
...five big regional divisions, and both wear clothes that look as if they come off the Sears racks (and do). New Mexico-born, Cushman left the University of California after his junior year to join Sears's archrival, Montgomery Ward, rose to a department manager in Oakland, but quit in 1930 rather than take a Depression demotion.* He joined Sears as a part-time salesman, by 1949 had climbed to command of the eight-state Western region...