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Your feature confirms that our leading statesman, Menzies, is of world stature; your cover shows that our leading portrait painter, Dobell, does not make the grade...
...finest examples of early Italian Renaissance art, hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experts do not agree on who the artist was; most attribute it to the 14th century school of Simone Martini in Siena. Yet the master himself was probably not the painter; most likely, it is the work of his brother-in-law and pupil, Lippo Memmi. Experts speculate that the painting was originally part of a magnificent altarpiece, with at least one other saintly companion, and they think they have found a good possibility: a remarkably similar painting of St. Peter, which...
...Joannah's mother remarried, now lives in South Africa. Mrs. Whitney took over Joannah's upbringing, put her through fine schools, was pleased to see her ward win a national essay contest. Now a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, Joannah is a literature major, a talented painter, a graceful athlete. Last week she learned that she is also an heiress. Mrs. Whitney, dead at 82 last February, left Joannah nearly all of her considerable wealth. Chief legacy: an estimated $1,000,000-plus trust fund, guaranteeing a handsome life income to Heiress Clapton, plus access to the principal...
...Director Lloyd (Raisin in the Sun) Richards. Wayne produced not only the union brothers Reuther, but also G.M.'s Vice President Louis G. Seaton, who sits across from Walter at the bargaining table. "To get through Wayne," says Seaton, "I worked eight hours a day as a sign painter. It was a down-to-earth, hardworking place then, and it still is. I feel awfully good about Wayne...
...time a masterpiece emerges from the laboratory looking strangely changed, someone objects. But the museums can do as they like, and most of them favor restoration that includes stringent cleaning. Artists, on the whole, oppose it. Art News recently called for a moratorium on it. And last week Manhattan Painter Frank Mason was rounding up artists' signatures for a petition demanding a moratorium on all art restoration work at the Metropolitan Museum. Says Mason bitterly: "The least safe place for your paintings is a museum; they will be skinned alive...