Word: vested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would certainly include among my favorites the beautiful contrasts of warm and cool colors in Monet's landscape of Montages, owned by Mr. Palmer. In this work of 1888 typically vibrant color enlivens its unconventional, simple composition. There is the stunning Cezanne of the boy in a red vest that Mr. Rockefeller owns, impressive for its fusion of linear clarity and almost overwhelming structural solidity. I was most intrigued by Picasso's 1916 still life that has none of the poster-like flatness of his other works from this period...
...less serious plane, if Dr. Donald Glaser thinks that he has my permission to give away my long-cherished and TIME-honored white vest, I have a correction...
...McMillan wore the white vest in 1951, when he got his Nobel Prize, later loaned it to Dr. Glaser...
...There was never less cause for a wake, but Manhattan's El Morocco closed down (it opens again next week, in a new spot two blocks east), and the gilded popinjays of two worlds turned up to keen. Surrealist Salvador Dali was there in a vest that could have been made by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, chatting with Mrs. Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey...
Donald Arthur Glaser, 34, wore an evening waistcoat that was yellowed with age when he stepped up to receive his Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf early this month. The old vest, he explained, had been worn by two other Nobelmen, Edwin McMillan and Emilio Segre, before him, "and I guess I'll pass it along to somebody else for some future Nobel ceremony." Chances are, Glaser himself may some day want it back for just that reason. Having reached top rank in his field with his invention of a bubble chamber for photographing atomic...