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Known to the Negroes as "Ajax, the White Knight," Groppi found a valid local cause in the quest for an open-housing ordinance. Mrs. Vel Phillips, 43, a pretty Negro who is Milwaukee's only black alderman, has five times proposed that such a measure be debated by the 19-member common council; each time she was put down by a vote of 18 to 1. Groppi leaped into the issue like an avenging angel. As a result, says U.S. Representative Clem Zablocki, who speaks in Congress for most of Milwaukee's South Side, much of the city...
Flawless Flair. Director Lee, who joined the museum in 1952 as curator of Oriental art and took over the reins from Milliken in 1958, uses subtler but equally effective tactics. When a Velásquez portrayal of a court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early...
...from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...
...Selgas, making room for a high-rise apartment building. On the outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings sit carefully cool and immobile as a yé-yé band blasts out a yeah-yeah beat...
...cloth-coated walls, the new museum displays Ferré's 400-work, $3,000,000 collection. There are paintings by Velásquez, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Vandyke, but Ferré preferred gems to giants-and purchased excellent examples of pre-Raphaelite and Italian baroque painters long held unfashionable. "We have minor masters rather than poor paintings by the big masters," he says. But the museum is not intended only as a repository. To stimulate Puerto Rican art, there are exhibited 150 paintings made on the island itself...