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Died. Henry Townley Heald, 71, former president of the Ford Foundation, world's largest, most influential, philanthropic trust; in Winter Park, Fla. The lanky native of Lincoln, Neb., became the first president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served from 1940 to 1952. For the next four years he was chancellor of New York University and helped to unify its many schools and divisions before joining Ford in 1956. Under Heald, grants to education were nearly 50% of the $1.75 billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should...
Died. Winfield Townley Scott, 58, critic, editor and poet; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Although Scott wrote about other states, he wrote best of familiar, roughhewn private places like Haverhill, Mass., where he was born. In his lyrical, uncluttered style, he celebrated them in poems like "Tidal River...
...Henry Townley Heald, L.H.D., former president of the Ford Foundation, former chancellor of New York University...
...Pace Gallery (125 Newbury St.) is a show of recent wood sculpture by Hugh Townley. He is an extremely talented artist, whose work seems among the most interesting of recent sculpture. I prefer his large reliefs made up of several types of wood, but his oversized "chessmen" and his colored drawings are also fine. Unfortunately, the current exhibit is somewhat thin. There are no recent works of major scale, and I am afraid that the New York branch of this gallery may have sold off the best things there...
...Beatles, and other forces of change and disintegration, a small group of American poets continues to write mild, mellow verse in the Concord manner of Emerson and Thoreau. Their themes are hill and dale, solitude and sadness; their tone is elegiac; and the best of them is Winfield Townley Scott...