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...Congress, and after all that is what counts." Agrees Virginia-born Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew: "Johnson will be tougher with the South. He knows them. Kennedy treated the South as if it were South Boston. As a Southerner, I know damn well you don't treat the South that way. Johnson won't play patty-cake with them...
...Virginia-born Sam Kootz, who now has Hans Hofmann, was also an early champion of nonobjective art. A onetime lawyer and then adman, he was writing about American art as far back as 1930, became convinced that the wave of the future in art lay in the U.S. and that the U.S. should start paying attention. And so, in 1945 he signed up Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes, packed them off to Florida to paint. Later, Adolph Gottlieb and Sculptor David Hare joined the list. Kootz refused to take Pollock, and when he began adding such foreign names as Soulages...
Died. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, 89, stately widow of President Woodrow Wilson; after a long illness; in Washington on the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth and within hours of the dedication of the new Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. A Virginia-born belle descended from Pocahontas, Edith Galt entered Wilson's circle through her friendship with his daughter, married the World War I President in the White House on the eve of the hard-fought 1916 election campaign, became his cherished confidante during the taxing war years, shared both his triumphant postwar tour...
...occasion was a new production of the Strauss opera at Spoleto, Italy, the musical festival that draws some 120,-ooo tourists each summer. Singing the role of "that girl"-described in Oscar Wilde's play as having "veins filled with fire"-was a fine new Negro soprano: Virginia-born Margaret Tynes...
Married. Viscount Astor, 53, eldest son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor and onetime Member of Parliament; and Bronwen Pugh, 29, top fashion model and daughter of an English county judge; he for the third time, she for the first; in a London borough office...