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...museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
...Dominican Republic's President Joaquin Balaguer and Ramfis Trujillo Jr., the old dictator's heir, claimed that the disorders were the work of Communist agitators, insisted that the democratization was proceeding as planned, and that there would be free elections next May. Said Balaguer: "These scratchings are the inevitable consequences of high political passions. I have faith that the democratization of Dominican institutions is being carried out firmly...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...
...serving a quiet term as a federal Deputy. Politically, he had the value of belonging to ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.), which holds the largest block of seats in Brazil's Congress. Temperamentally, he was the sort that Goulart, himself a political heir to flamboyant old Dictator Vargas, thought he could get along with...
...magazine industry is not flourishing," says A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford in an introductory note to his new monthly, Show. "Why, then, a new publication at such a time?" Because, says Hartford, there was "no all-embracing publication of culture and the arts," and Show "will fill this void," at $1 per issue. If there was indeed such a void, it is still yawning. Show's first issue offers the less than startling news that lower production costs could cure Broadway's ills and that ABC-Television is run by men with the creative imagination of soap salesmen...