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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., 75, widow of the art-amassing publisher, as a benefactress, announced the simultaneous receipt of donations from the Hearst Foundation: three 17th century British interiors, some old chunks of European architecture, a Roman copy in marble of a 5th century B.C. statue of Hermes...
...condemn even the use of tobacco," he cried. "If it were in my power to choose, I would have doomsday now." When another prince shot and killed the British vice consul in Jiddah because he refused to hand over a visiting English girl, the Old Lion offered the widow his son's life in forfeit (she declined, settled for $70,000 damages). In sorrow and anger, he forthwith banished all liquor from Saudi Arabia. In 1953, the Old Lion died, a stranger in a world he never dreamed of. At 51, Saud became King...
...other eternally clutching a tumbler of Scotch, Bogart had won wide respect by managing, on screen or off, to be perversely ingratiating Humphrey Bogart. With Bogie's ashes in an urn was placed a tiny gold whistle, a memento of his first meeting 13 years ago with his widow, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall. The whistle bore an inscription borrowed from the dialogue of their first film together, To Have and Have Not: "If you need anything, just whistle...
...producers of The Threepenny Opera, will invade Broadway with the world première of Graham Greene's The Potting Shed, follow up with a New York premiere of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. After seeing their Iceman, O'Neill's widow asked Director Jose Quintero and associates to stage the profitable Broadway premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night. 'Take a Giant Step, which analyzes in painful detail the struggles of a Negro boy in a small New England town, has been bought by Hollywood, will also...
...generally assumed to be the father was a no-account Sunday painter and alcoholic named Boissy whom Suzanne had met at the revels held at Montmartre's Chat Noir café. Suzanne herself was never very specific-and perhaps could not be. But last week Maurice's widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, decided to erase the doubt about daddy. After a festive municipal lunch in her honor at Limoges, where Lucie was pushing her recently published book, Maurice Utrillo, My Husband, she announced that Utrillo's real father was none other than Puvis de Chavannes, France...