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...Voice originates in three bustling, crowded office buildings on Manhattan's West 57th Street, in a peculiar atmosphere compounded of foreign accents, glue, bureaucracy and an enthusiasm not often found in government departments. Few men on the Voice staff are topnotch professionals; most work exceptionally hard, and have, on the whole, done a good job. Boss of the Voice is Foy D. Kohler, 42, an Ohioan and a veteran foreign service career man with years of duty which have given him a patient smile and a prematurely wrinkled face. Responsible for Voice policy is able ex-Newspaperman Edward Barrett...
...along Manhattan's art-vending 57th Street last week, abstraction reared its cipher head. Most of its exhibiting practitioners were under 50, but none of them happened to be children, no matter what their work seemed to indicate. Among the standouts...
...hood to be worn with waterproof leather boots. Coats had a pocket, placed aft of amidships, for a handkerchief, of course. Hats included an item bedecked with pussy willows, another with a long black plume. All of them were to be had at Hammacher Schlemmer's on East 57th Street, a locality where New Yorkers who don't need anything shop for things they didn't know they wanted...
Diamond Jim's Gems. Fortnight ago, Hiram Parke popped champagne for a housewarming in the galleries' new $1,500,000 home, a squat, block-long modern building on upper Madison Avenue, 20 blocks away from his old store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the galleries' door, to symbolize art and industry, is a 14-by-10-foot sculpture of Venus and Manhattan, a reclining male. (Because Venus' bosom protrudes more than the permissible 18 inches over the sidewalk, Parke-Bernet pays $25 a year to the city for the privilege...
...Metropolitan had bought the picture (for a reputed $200,000) from Knoedler's, a 57th Street gallery which had bought it "deliverable in Manhattan" from "someone" abroad. The diplomatic exchanges would take some time. Meanwhile Knoedler's wasn't saying who the "someone" was, and the museum held on to its saint...