Word: years
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
...publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be in the stores next month. The scholarship, supplied by contributors from 18 countries, is outstanding, the 542 page-plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts...
...angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the Presbyterian men's school could have the money for a sorely needed science building-if it raised another $700,000. It did. Last week, as workmen hauled shiny lab equipment into the new building, Manhattan Millionaire Charles Anderson Dana, back in his Park Avenue aerie, busily unrolled blueprints from other...
...getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana...
...still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked for faculty salaries. President Case knew full well what his decision might mean: the militant local chapter of the American Association of University Professors threatened a vote of no-confidence in the president. "I defend this right of theirs," said he, and awaited results. Last week they came...