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Born in Vienna, Gombrich is a British citizen and a member of the Warburg Institute of London. In 1956, he gave the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, Washington...
...result, Hoskin, 47, was nearly $50,000 richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer...
...Prades." This piece ended with a quote from Casals, ". . .someone must remember," and I was made to remember. I quickly wrote a treatment for a documentary feature film on Casals, but it never came off. In the course of promoting it, I was brought into contact with Gerald Warburg. Four years later, Mr. Warburg "remembered," and said that if we weren't able to have a feature film of Casals we should at least have a modest record of his performance for posterity. I agreed, of course, and he prevailed with the Eda K. Loeb Fund, through the Mannes...
...following these exercise, luncheon for members and their guests (women not admitted) will be served in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Reservations for places at the luncheon should be made in advance with Philip Levine, corresponding secretary, Holyoke House 14. Members of the faculties who are members of other chapters of Phi Beta Kappa are cordially invited to come to the luncheon...
...says U.J.A. Publicist Rayfield Levy. In 1953, for example, the American Red Cross raised about $42 million from some 41 million members while U.J.A. raised more than $65 million from 2,000,000 Jews and some 500,000 non-Jews. When a Catholic dignitary asked U.J.A. President Edward Warburg one day how the Jews were able to raise so much, Warburg replied: "First you start with 2,000 years of persecution...