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Inevitably, any of his shows becomes an event bordering on theater. So it is with his current "retrospective" at the Whitney Museum, which, when it opened last week, proved to be no retrospective at all but a tiny sampling of his work on canvas from 1962 to 1971, hived off from a larger, more systematic show that Critic John Coplans organized for the Pasadena Art Museum last year and has since been touring Europe to near-hysterical acclaim. The Whitney show starts with a series of the soup cans that propelled Warhol into notoriety. But earlier sequences are not present...
...desire to move out of local politics comes at the end of 31 frustrating years as mayor of a troubled city. Supporters believe he may be seeking the late Whitney Young's post as director of the Urban League or the Democratic vice-presidential nomination...
...will it feel to be the lone woman moving into Leverett House after living on the only all-female floor at Radcliffe? "Very strange," Heather J. Whitney '74 said yesterday...
...must not suppose that all these ingredients are conjoined in cold blood. The best genre writers, like Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney, identify with their heroines. They also identify with their audience. It is not entirely coincidence, therefore, that like the Bronte sisters many gothic writers are products of a sequestered, lonely childhood with plenty of time for fantasy...
...Phyllis Whitney, 67, can scarcely recall a time when she was not scribbling something. Her father was an itinerant shipping agent, and she spent her childhood in Japanese and Philippine hotels. To her, hair-raising suspense stories suggest home and hearth because that was usually all her mother could find to read aloud at bedtime. She has written everything: stories for Sunday-school papers and pulp magazines, juvenile and teen-age books as well as novels. She hates housework and has no hobbies, preferring to sit at the typewriter all day writing fiction or dealing with a huge correspondence. Outside...