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Washington's National Gallery opened a long-awaited loan show this week: 40 paintings from the collection of Oil Tycoon Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. Publicity-hating Gulbenkian, one of the richest men in the world (TIME, June 16, 1947 et seq.), was not on hand for the festivities; at 84, the Near East genius spends most of his time in his adopted Lisbon...
Battlefield was clearly Jockey Eddie Arcaro's favorite, too. He had ridden Battlefield in most of his starts, and before the Futurity, richest and most prestigious of two-year-old tests, he was unmistakably confident. (His agent, Bones La Boyne, explained: "When the money's there, Eddie's there...
...University received a $300,000 gift for research in behavior and human relations from the Ford Foundation, America's richest philanthropic trust this weekend...
Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...
...Bailey is weakest where it might have been richest: in Author O'Donnell's sketchy, fleshless recounting of the trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...