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...reputations as, a decade ago, they were on promoting new ones. A revisionist ecstasy is in the air, and one of the more important artists to benefit from it (if posthumously) is Sculptor Elie Nadelman. A definitive retrospective of some 150 sculptures and drawings opened last week at the Whitney Museum, organized by Art Historian John Baur, director of the Whitney until his retirement last year...
...Nadelman's biographer, Lincoln Kirstein, observed, he "refined all coarseness into a subtle fixity of ostentation." He could give the postures of invitation and entertainment a detached grace almost worthy of an archaic kouros. The Whitney show reminds us how good minor...
...gain nothing more than good will. Philadelphia's Olney Federal Savings & Loan is running a series of ads honoring Revolutionary women. Chase Manhattan Bank has put up $100,000 to help finance an exhibit called "200 Years of American Sculpture" that will open at New York's Whitney Museum next March. IBM has offered $500,000 to help pay for a multimedia exhibit, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," that is now touring Europe. But these projects are vastly outnumbered by the kind described by Robert Freedman, president of Streisand, Zuch & Freedman, a New York ad agency. Says...
Strollers wandered into a Fairchild Industries mini-theater to see an eight-minute movie The Hammer, which showed the firm's weapons-laden A-10 tactical-support aircraft in action. Usherettes passed out buttons proclaiming A-10 PILOTS DO IT BETTER WITH A BIGGER GUN. At the Pratt & Whitney booth, S.R.O. crowds gathered to watch Magician Dick Ryan perform feats of prestidigitation while standing next to an F-100 engine built for the Air Force's hot new F-15 fighter. Up popped three red balls in Ryan's hand to symbolize the company's "quality...
...Henry Ford, of course, who combined Whitney's system of interchangeable parts and Taylor's concept of elementary operations to create a sequential system of chained work organized on mechanical conveyors or power-driven assembly-line manufacture. On Ford's assembly line, work was conveyed past files of semiskilled workers, and what began with the bare frame of the chassis ended, 300 feet and 93 minutes later, as a complete automobile. Man, time, pace and machine had become a unified whole...