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...mess is the floundering leftist regime of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 47, who became the world's first elected female chief of government in 1960 after the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Swept into office on a tide of emotion, the widow is quickly depleting an inheritance of good will...
...That was less than 20 years ago, but now Pollock has been dead nearly eight years, and the time has come for looking at Pollock in retrospect. This week Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery provides the opportunity in a show of 150 Pollocks, drawn mainly from his widow's estate. That exhibition is backed by ten early works in the tiny Griffin Gallery...
...widow had a huge boulder set near his grave. On it, a brass plaque is inscribed with the signature that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
Died. Helen Landsdowne Resor, 77, widow of Stanley Burnet Resor, longtime (1916-1955) president and chairman (1955-1961) of J. Walter Thompson, the nation's second biggest advertising agency (estimated 1963 billings: $450 million), herself a vice president and director for more than four decades, renowned for her sprightly copywriting ("The skin you love to touch") and pioneering use of famous name testimonials (Eleanor Roosevelt once endorsed White Owl cigars); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Though it does not pass to the next generation, Britain's title of life peer gives the holder all the other noble rights, including a seat in the House of Lords. And that sits fine with Dora Gaitskell, widow of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The new Baroness Gaitskell sees the distinction "as a tribute to my late husband." But, she adds, thinking of her interest in education and prison reform, "it is also a way for me to get back into active politics...