Word: pittsburghs
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Strictly Ordered. Mary Cassatt's father, a Pittsburgh banker, had said that he would almost rather see her dead than become an artist. But she proved to have an equally strong will. During the Civil War she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, then, at the age of 23, traveled to Paris. Degas first opened her eyes. Wrote Cassatt: "I used to go and flatten my nose against the picture dealer's window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life...
Died. Stanton Chapman Crawford, 68, acting chancellor since June of the University of Pittsburgh, longtime dean of the faculty, who earned good marks for bringing in $5,000,000 in emergency state aid to ease the school's $27 million deficit, but hardly had time to tackle basic problems of high costs and declining income from gifts; of a heart attack after leaving a fund-raising dinner; in Pittsburgh...
Even a multimillionaire needs a little luck. Ohio Sportsman John W. Galbreath has had his share: his Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series in 1960 when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last inning of the last game, and his Chateaugay won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at long-shot odds of 9-1. Galbreath's luck seemed to sour after he paid $1,350,000 to lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath...
...several months ago, it was to celebrate only one of his recent honors. A show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art drew 400,000 visitors in 20 weeks. Elsewhere last year, he had retrospectives in Paris, Copenhagen and London. He won first prizes at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition in 1961, the Venice Biennale in 1962, and was awarded the $10,000 Guggenheim International in 1964 and France's coveted Grand Prix National des Arts in 1965. But Giacometti cared more for life than honors. Said he, "I prefer the sight of a bird living...