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...eager ally in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was obvious from the start that the bank would need large paintings for its wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; Robert Hale, curator of American painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Perry Rathbone, director of Boston...
Trumbull to Rothko. As the committee worked on the collection, SOM was providing a setting that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged from Mies van der Rohe's elegant Barcelona model to the stubby leather swivel chairs designed by Ward Bennett-who also advised on color and office appointments. Many of the textiles used are handwoven, come from as far away as Thailand...
...ceiling, the paintings ranged in time from a superb 14th century primitive (The Flagellation of Christ) through the works of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Tintoretto, Vermeer, Fragonard, Rubens and Van Dyck, and on down to 1800. When Paris finally digests this show, another lot from the buried reserves, which som officials estimate to number as many a 2,000 items, will be put on display. And this month 22 new rooms at the Louvre will be opened up, after having been closed for 15 years for lack of funds Exulted France-Soir last week: "Ther is no more mystery...
...unshakable place. The secret of his greatness is the relentless sweep of his untutorable mind. A brooding Kaplan caps a lecture on etymology with the thrust, "Aren't eny voids in English fromm England?" Here is the man to bandy homely inapposite proverbs with a Khrushchev: ''Som pipple can drown in a gless of vater." It is he who gives the principal parts of "to eat" as "eat, ate, full," and only Mr. Kaplan could conceive of the generalissimo of Nationalist China as "Shanghai Jack." The world of science straggles beside Mr. Kaplan's inventive agility...
...nation whose literary life is wedded to the colleges, quiet, courtly Poet John Crowe Ransom has for years been one of literature's most influential college teachers. An ironist of edged eloquence, Ran som has published only a few dozen sharply tooled poems, but they are among the best written in the U.S. this century. A critic of high reputation, he has never allowed his views to fossilize; he can retreat with grace from an untenable position, or with great courtesy flay the hide off a literary wrongdoer...