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Rumored Guilt. Beardsley was born in Brighton. His father was a blade who soon squandered a small inheritance; his mother, Ellen Pitt, a Brighton belle, was so slender that she was known locally as "the bottomless Pitt." For a while, young Beardsley was employed as an inept clerk in an insurance firm run by a relative, who was nearly as happy as Aubrey when the boy deserted business for art. But that career was nearly wrecked by Oscar Wilde as a consequence of Wilde's own notorious homosexual liaison with Lord Alfred Douglas. Though Beardsley's name...
...MIGHT BE 1-A, BUT YOU'RE A-l WITH Us cheered a recent Armstrong Cork recruiting ad in the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt News. The ingratiating pitch at Pitt was pretty much the corporate commencement address of 1967. In their never-ending need for skilled manpower, companies all over the country have been plying more graduates with more money than ever before. All in all, says the authoritative College Placement Council, this has been "the toughest, most competitive college-recruiting year in history...
Portrait by Romney. Dining at 10 Downing Street, he delightedly pointed out to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even...
...many millions Pennsylvania Heiress Helen Clay Frick, 75, daughter of Steel Baron Henry Clay Frick, has poured into the University of Pittsburgh. She established the Pitt Art Department in 1927, later gave the school a blank check to stock her Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Library. Seven years ago, she donated a splendid Frick Fine Arts Museum. As always, she demanded secrecy about the overall cost of the building and its collection, but this time she also demanded control over the building's operation and personnel. At last, her aversion to modern art and her criticism of the staff...
...Posvar's Air Force specialties was the methodology of decision making, a facility that will be sharply tested at Pitt. The school's financial troubles were blamed largely on poor budget control, an overemphasis on costly graduate studies, and the failure of a tri mester system to attract summer students. Turning to Pennsylvania taxpayers for help, Pitt gained a $5,000,000 emergency appropriation in 1965, then became a "state-related" school last fall. As a result of this change in status, state support was hiked from $6,000,000 to $20 million; but Pitt also...