Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic, "if the most popular, consequential, stirring exhibition ever presented by the Modern Museum should turn out to be that of an old master." If Old Master Turner himself could have been present, he would probably have found it doubly ironic, and staggering as well. For up on the wall were 99 oils and watercolors that included, besides some of Turner's most famous oils, those other paintings that during his lifetime he had kept carefully hidden away in his studio along with his intimate sketchbooks and his notes on technical research. And it is Turner's lesser...
Worse yet, with three more weeks of the season still to go, opera-buffs-turned-scavengers are already at work. Chunks of plaster and strips of damask wall covering have been torn away and the crystal pendants on some of the light fixtures have been stolen, as have many of the name cards on the dressing-room doors. To discourage further looting, the Met has removed most of the paintings, sculpture and memorabilia on display...
...each) in the boxes. Says House Manager Alfred Hubay: "Old subscribers have been complaining about those chairs for years-now they want to buy them!" Among other items sold: 15 pairs of Caruso's flesh-colored stockings (at $15 per pair), dressing-room doors ($10), brass spittoons ($25), wall sconces ($15 to $75), chandeliers ($500), columns, banisters, hat trees, and several hundred planks from the stage floor...
...that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found himself forced to listen without ever being able to get a word in edgeways...
...brokerage trading in cocoa, coffee and rubber, Israel joined Bache in 1945. Last year when Bache, following the example of 138 other New York Stock Exchange members, switched from a partnership to a corporation, Israel was picked by Harold Bache to become president. Bache himself became chief executive, but Wall Street predicted that Israel would eventually move into that...