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...Diamond to, inevitably, some art. But museumgoers in search of the art had a hard time finding it in a few cramped galleries behind the stuffed elephants. Under the leadership of Secretary Dillon Ripley, the Smithsonian has recently been cleaning out its attic. Last week, with a black-tie gala for 2,300 guests led by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, the Smithsonian's paintings and sculpture, now formally known as the National Collection of Fine Arts, moved into a home of their...
...place of the boat ride, the Committee is considering several alternatives--including a gala party at Carey Cage with higher quality entertainment than was previously planned...
...among Russia's artists seems to have spread well beyond literature. Calling a special press conference, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet Culture Minister, assured Western newsmen that "never have conditions for artistic creation in Russia been so favorable as now." She then went on to announce that a gala international ballet contest will be held in Moscow next year. Of course, the emphasis will be on "realism"-meaning that abstract dancing is out. "And we do not share the opinion of some ballet lovers who approve of the sexual direction that ballet has taken," added Mrs. Furtseva. "When...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Inaugural Evening at Ford's Theater." The gala reopening of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., which has not seen a performance since April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot there during a presentation of Our American Cousin. The invited audience will see Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Julie Harris, Odetta, Andy Williams, Harry Belafonte and others in performances keyed to Lincoln's love of the theater and the music...
Second Bulge. At a gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from...