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Even an arrangement of the paintings by donors could have commented on the taste of particular families. The elaborate Toilet of Venus was donated by Wiliam K. Vanderbilt. Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist, helped the Havemeyer family choose the works of Spanish artists. El Greco's View of Toledo is part of the 1929 Havemeyer bequest: a view of Mary Cassatt's judgment...
...Tale of Two Cities, where Sidney Carton goes to the guillotine in the stead of his friend Charles Marnay. Ironically, death did not, however, remain a matter of stage make-believe. Shaw wrote the play in 1896-97 at the request of the famous actor of melodrama Wiliam ("Breezy Bill") Terriss; but, before Terriss ever essaved the title role, he was murdered by a madman outside London's Adelphi Theatre...
...Wiliam M. Kargman '61 expressed puzzlement over the assertion that the HSA could act contrary to the interests of the student body. "I can't see the dangers involved here," he commented
...Near the Water. A daffy piece of South Pacifiction, based on Wiliam Brinkley's novel about some officers and men engaged in the Navy's public relations and their own private affairs TIME...
When the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board patched up their long feud a fortnight ago, the peacemaker was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wiliam McChesney Martin Jr., 44, onetime Joy wonder of Wall Street and the Fair Deal. Because both Treasury Secretary ohn W. Snyder and Federal Reserve Chairman Thomas B. McCabe had taken such well-entrenched positions that neither could beat a graceful retreat, Snyder had asked Martin to help work out a compromise...