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This may have been phrenology's finest hour. Bernard Baruch rose to become a wizard of Wall Street, a philanthropist, sportsman, landed squire, patriot, "adviser to Presidents," park-bench sage, and above all, a continuing American legend. Timed to appear on his 87th birthday, this first volume of his autobiography tells only half the Baruch story, barely reaching his World War I stint as czar of the War Industries Board (a companion volume in the fall of '58 will bring the saga up to date). The book packs no surprises, but in its engaging, unpretentious...
...great King's palace came to light. Little remained of the pomp and magnificence, the power and the glory but some artful slabs of stone that tapestried the walls of the great palace. A dozen of the slabs, presented to the Brooklyn Museum by Art Collector and Philanthropist Hagop Kevorkian, now make their contribution to the thesis that though civilizations crumble, art endures...
Died. Hugh Roy Cullen, 76, Texas millionaire and philanthropist, founder-head of the Quintana Petroleum Corp., largest independent oil company in the Southwest, who gave away something like 90% of his estimated $200 million fortune; of cerebral thrombosis; in Houston. Texas-born of poor parents, Cullen left the third grade to work in a candy factory, dabbled in cotton and real estate, then (1930) as a wildcatter, struck deep into the 500-million-barrel Rabb's Ridge oil field, 50 miles from Houston. His method: to take wells others had given up, and drill deeper. After...
...Angeles area PRESBYTERIANS are operating two retreat houses. "Sky Forest" is a large redwood lodge in the San Bernardino Mountains, built for his private use by the late oilman and philanthropist Herbert C. Wylie and donated to the Presbyterians. The lodge sleeps 32 people and is used 46 times a year for retreats from Friday evening through Sunday noon which emphasize "reflection periods" and Bible study. "Mar Casa" is a white-shingled, two-story building on Balboa Island, built for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in World War I for Christian education work, but now used for retreats...
...owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted the luminous portrait of aging, crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking John Lowell of the Boston...