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This week Washington's National Gallery announced that the Goya that Mrs. Havemeyer bought was now in its possession, the gift of the Havemeyers' daughter, Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of Morristown, NJ. It is perhaps the most spectacular of the treasures that have recently been added to the collections of U.S. museums (see color). It is an icily majestic portrait of Arthur Wellesley, who was then in the process of driving Napoleon's troops out of Spain, and was to become the first Duke of Wellington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Grandee of Spain, and later Prime...
...close, and the consequent struggle fierce. Sometimes the tactics are outwardly subtle. New Jersey Republicans chivalrously agreed to give the state's 15th seat to booming Democratic Middlesex County (pop. 433,856), which deserved it. But by splitting Middlesex, the G.O.P. saved both Fifth District Republican Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. and Third District Republican James C. Auchincloss, who had shared not only Middlesex but also the inevitable danger of being defeated by its growing Democratic strength. More often, reapportionment is crude. North Carolina Democrats, obliged to cut twelve districts to eleven, worked a dachshund-shaped gerrymander (a system of redistricting...
Died. Mathilda E'izabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge, 85, widow of Poet George Cabot Lodge and the mother of U.S. Representative to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and U.S. Ambassador to Spain John Davis Lodge, whom she raised in the home of their grandfather, U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.; after a long illness; in Washington...
...than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point by scheduling a discussion this...
...What's the Date?" So engrossed was Ike in elaborating his "musts" that he forgot the time. At 9 o'clock one of the Congressmen broke in to remind him of his Cabinet meeting. As the party broke up. New Jersey's Peter Frelinghuysen asked the President to autograph his place card. "What's the date?" asked Ike. "June 6," said somebody. "Oh," mused the onetime Allied Commander in Chief, reaching...