Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller's gripping hobby. He has gathered 1,500 primitive pieces, another 1,000 oils, etchings and lithographs, almost all modern. Says Adviser Rene d'Harnoncourt, director of the Modern Museum: "Anyone who is such a doer gets a special kick out of his times." Some of the best items are in the Rockefellers' 27-room triplex apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, others at the family's 3,000 acre estate in Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown. Rockefeller has built a house in the shadow of the family mansion, where his father still spends...
...Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many a New York bloc, e.g., Negroes, plus liberals, art lovers, medical men and the churches, recognize a longstanding debt to the Rockefeller philanthropies, may be moved to pay it at the polls...
...abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
...occupies, apart from the Albany Governor's mansion, an elegant, five-story Manhattan townhouse, a summer place on Long Island, a Florida hideaway, the caretaker's cottage at the Arden estate (he gave the big house to Columbia University, which uses it for special conferences). Beneath his placid, patrician bearing, he flexes long-toughened sinews of a first-rate, determined administrator and an autocrat of the timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense...
...Accra, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah woke last week to watch all Ghana celebrate his 49th birthday. There were thanksgiving church services in honor of National Founders Day, parades, garden parties, gala balls, free medical treatment for expectant mothers for a one-week period. The Accra Evening News published a special issue featuring a large front-page photograph captioned: "Our Indomitable Prime Minister and the founder of the new nation of Ghana, Osagyefo [Defender], Oyeadieyie [Does All Well], Kantamanto [Never Failing], Tufuhene Okyeade [Ever-Giving Leader]' Kukudrufo [Brave] Kwame Nkrumah!'' Presents poured in: sheep and food from Ghanaian...