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NEXT week the Wichita Art Museum will show off a new acquisition that any museum in the world would be proud of: the Mary Cassatt painting opposite. The picture lends great distinction to a collection only 14 years in the making. Using the half-million-dollar estate willed by the widow of a local newspaper publisher, Roland P. Murdock, the museum has already bought 113 works of American art. The Cassatt is the best of this year's seven purchases...
...Wichita canvas owes much to Edgar Degas, the woman-hating perfectionist who was Mary Cassatt's closest male friend. "I would not have admitted," he exclaimed when first he saw her work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light...
...Force will spend $250 million to increase production of B-52 bombers and tool up Boeing's Wichita, Kans. plant as a second source of supply for the bombers, now being made only in Seattle. Production of North American's supersonic fighter, the F-100, will also be stepped up, even though testing has not been completed, because the plane performed so well in its first flights...
...Along with papers around Manhattan, and such other dailies as the Los Angeles Herald & Express, New Orleans Item, Wichita Beacon, Boston Traveler and Record...
...highways now planned or building will be self-liquidating toll roads, like the successful Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. Massachusetts, for example, will start one such $200 million cross-state toll highway by the end of this year; Kansas is considering a new superhighway from Kansas City to Wichita; Ohio is just now launching a $326 million east-west toll road to link up with the Pennsylvania Turnpike...