Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guggenheim Museum ever put on view at one time, some observers might wonder just how it got to be so famous. Since its original commitment was to nonobjective art, it is about 80% abstract, but even in its chosen field, its omissions-Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell. to mention only a few-are glaring. Nevertheless, the corkscrew museum's new director. Thomas Messer, last week put on a show from the collection that was a delight from the third spiral to the ground floor: an exhibition of the museum's ''old masters...
...messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said. "But I guess they love a loser more...
...Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Grower, the farm-bred New York girls exhibited their tresses, totaling 36 ft. 10 in. in length, at a Barnum & Bailey sideshow. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody "partnerized" with Dr. David Franklin Powell, alias "White Beaver," to promote Yosemite Yarrow for the cramps; Wonder Worker, to be taken internally for cholera but externally for rheumatism; and Cough Cream, which, it was claimed, "heals diseased lungs...
...Suede-Shoe Problem. Many of the shelter sales are going to solidly established concerns such as Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., whose shelter division is headed by former U.S. Civil Defense Chief Leo A. Hoegh. Says Hoegh: "We, have already sold 5,000 shelters this year, and our volume must now be ten-to fifteenfold over a year ago." Wonder Building offers four all-steel models ranging from $395 to $995. With one plant already working around the clock, Wonder will open a second Chicago factory this week, is laying plans for others in Ontario and on the West...
...straight ahead and looking as though he had just committed "a grave social faux pas." Masters tells of monocled British officers who went off to war with a pack of foxhounds and 40 dozen cases of champagne, and who could turn a man to jelly just by peering with wonder at his clothes. And Masters writes frankly of his affair with a married woman, who proudly bore him an illegitimate daughter before they could be married...