Word: prendergasts
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...dynamic methods worked well in his next job in Kansas City, whose schools were deteriorating under Boss Tom Prendergast. After Hunt had finished his campaign, the city added an extra one million dollars annually to its educational budget...
...made Bob Wagner undisputed leader of New York State's Democrats, gives him the chance to heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...Democratic boss of New York's Erie County (Buffalo), he delivered bountifully for Jack Kennedy in 1960 and got the new President's heartfelt thanks in person at the White House. Soon word was passed that Crotty was a Kennedy favorite to replace bumbling Michael H. Prendergast as New York State Democratic chairman-might even aspire to becoming national chairman...
...With the 20th century, the nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though...
Lost & Found. With a few notable exceptions-most regrettably, Albert Ryder, whose works are few and hard to come by-Montclair covers its field pretty well, from early primitives to such contemporaries as Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. It has a Whistler, an Eakins, a Cassatt, a Prendergast, two Homers, and twelve paintings by George Inness, who lived in Montclair most of his life. It has a Portrait of Caleb Whitefoord by Gilbert Stuart that was at one time thought to be lost; mentioned in a London auction catalogue in 1834, it was not heard of again until a former...