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...answer, Andover is staging an extra-special teaching exhibit, consisting of 395 items from 174 donors. The show is a glorious potpourri ranging from ancient Iranian pots to pop art, and includes a sample of artists from Zurbarán and Veronese to Picasso and Pollock. What the items have in common is their owners: they are all Andover graduates. Last week the collectors collected themselves together at Andover to congratulate Hayes...
...suit, his huge (250 lbs.) frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming, elk from Montana, bear from Georgia-not to mention coon, possum, squirrel and deer from his own 100,000-acre preserve in Alabama...
That is why still, despite re-zoning, Manhattan is an incongruous potpourri of mini-neighborhoods, each with its own trace of accent, its own numbered Main Street. Don't register surprise when you turn a corner in New York and find a different town: Walk reconstituted from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...
...folk circuit, her "road to communicate," is a lifetime's journey from the days when she performed as a piano soloist with the Denver Businessmen's Symphony. Seattle-born and Denver-bred, she was influenced by her blind father, who emceed a local radio show ("a potpourri of philosophy, piano and good music," she recalls...
...Design of monument: Already Washington is a potpourri of architectural styles. What form would God's Memorial assume? Let us not be penurious in undertaking such a sanctified construction. Perhaps a Golden Calf would be appropriate...