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...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...
What was the reason for De Gaulle's new urgency? Cabled TIME Paris Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast...
Humiliation. In Washington, President Kennedy was plainly disgusted with the whole New York situation. Sure to be cut off from nearly all federal patronage under the Kennedy Administration, De Sapio and his chief lieutenant, State Chairman Mike Prendergast, had suffered humiliations at the Kennedy inaugural, where they were pointedly snubbed (gloated one reform Democrat: "They just wandered around the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel like a couple of farm boys"). But Kennedy was far from ready to trust in Bob Wagner's ability to solve New York's Democratic problems. At his press conference last week, Kennedy said...
...Bounce fumbling State Chairman Michael Prendergast, replace him and De Sapio with men acceptable to the reformers. (Prendergast had incurred Kennedy's fury during the campaign by publicly snubbing Lehman and Mrs. Roosevelt as they sat on a platform with Kennedy at a massive rally. Recalls a Kennedy aide: "Jack apologized to them on the spot. Unfortunately, Mrs. Roosevelt's hearing aid was turned off at the time. But Lehman explained to her later...
...last years of his life. Bachelor Prendergast became deaf-"so deaf." his old friend Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks wrote of him, "that he could not hear the knock on the door when people came to see him. So his friends took to thrusting a newspaper under the door, which they rattled back and forth till he saw it. Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from...