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...shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this year...
...were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...
...sary, he dedicated a new $12 million gas turbine testing laboratory on the banks of the Connecticut River. Oldtimers who examined the concrete-lined testing chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that's simply all the devil has to do in hell...
...Gallery opened the liveliest art show the capital had seen in many a month. Its big, rambling "American Procession: 1492-1900" filled twelve galleries and six corridors, and was as exciting and various as the history it recounted. Moreover, there wasn't a painting that the average summer visitor couldn't grasp at first blink...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum confronts the strong-legged visitor with almost every sort of art object, from Egyptian soup spoons to a colonial American sugar cutter. But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting. Last week the Met answered its critics by putting on exhibit 200 of the best paintings from its collection of U.S. art since...