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...Publicity Front. Huntington Hartford, A. & P. stores heir and art patron, took full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that art worldlings are pulling the wool over the public's eyes. No friend to modern art, Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business...
Last week the finalists gathered in the plush auditorium of the Palais des Beaux Arts under the careful scrutiny of 13 solemn-faced judges and the motherly gaze of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, 78, patron of the Concours. Only one of five Americans, Philadelphia-born Berl Senofsky, 30, had survived the preliminaries ; all the Russians had made it. Senofsky, whose parents were born in the Ukraine, had studied at Juilliard, spent a hitch in the Army before becoming assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra five years ago. Dissatisfied with his progress, he quit his job, flew to Europe...
Through the winter, young Bertrand Peyrelongue gazed at the vineyards surrounding his ancient château on the Gironde and mourned the lost days when fine wines were treated with the respect they deserved. Those were the days when the vineyard patrons of the sun-kissed Médoc district personally carried their finest Bordeaux vintages across the Channel and sold them at a Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes...
Sure enough, it turned out that good Prince-Bishop Wenceslaus had been a patron of music. His favorites: one Vincenzo Righini (1756-1812) and one Josef Martin Kraus (1756-92), who once had a symphony conducted by Haydn. That was all Impresario Hammer needed to know. Now a baroque-music week is a permanent fixture in Bad Bertrich. This year's festival gets under way next month with music by Righini and Kraus, plus Mozart, Haydn and Schumann. It will be played in the castle's candlelit hall, dominated by portraits of the Prince-Bishop and his sister...
...size of the bill to its U.S. participants seemed to point still another lesson. On insistence of the Peruvians, who balked at any drastic ripping of the social fabric of the highlands, Holmberg did not relieve the Indians of their obligation to work three days a week for the patron. Instead, he increased their productivity so much that returns from Vicos' cash crops rose from $2,000 a year to $10,000. The profit nicely covered the needed fertilizer, seeds, buildings and farmers' loans. The Carnegie grant (around $18,000 a year) covered the research end; the hacienda...