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...Whitney M. Young Jr., Executive Director, National Urban League...
...exhibition travels in December to the Baltimore Museum of Art, then to New York's Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago...
Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 67, so admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club...
...first, but only one of the many surprises tucked behind the granite-sheathed fagade of Manhattan's new Whitney Museum of American Art. Even in a time that has seen museum design change from the Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...
...Watts as an epithet in much the same way as city boys used "country" as a term of derision...But now, blacks are seen in Folsom saying "I'm from Watts, Baby! ...I lived there for a time, and I'm proud of it, the tired lamentations or Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and The Preacher notwithstanding." This is the reeling of the young Negroes, the Jacobins of post-Revolutionary Watts. It is this new self-consciousness that permeates the "half-acre" around the Westminister Neighborhood Association and 103rd Street...