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Over the years a steady stream of experts paraded by the collection in admiration and envy. Sir Kenneth Clark was charmed, and so was Critic Alfred Frankfurter, editor of Art News. "She would ask me hundreds of questions," says Frankfurter, "about why certain artists were important in their time. She wondered why Perugino was not considered to be as good as Raphael." Though she was eager for advice, she had wisdom of her own. Among her purchases was Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Fraternity of Perugia. "It was a sophisticated choice," says Frankfurter...
Fast Situations. Unlike most of the oldtime Texas tycoons, the Murchisons run a team operation, delegate authority freely, and depend heavily on a stream of advisers. "Dad is a real financial genius," says John. "My brother and I don't consider ourselves financial geniuses." From all over the U.S., college friends, family friends, business acquaintances-and a spate of crackpots-tip them off about investment opportunities. Unlike their father, who disliked selling any of his properties, they are on the lookout for fast situations that they can get in and out of while the profits are ripe. Above...
...only three-quarters of a mile to go in the race, M.I.T. led the Crimson by a full length, and was headed for its first Compton Cup victory since the cup races began 28 years ago. But then the Crimson, headed in reinstated stroke Perry Boyden, turned on the stream and overtook the Engineers to win by a length in 10:19.6. Princeton finished in third place at least a length behind M.I.T., with Dartmouth last...
...real remark was far less martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...
...pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism. On a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year...