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...present only 20% of the father and son's collection can be shown in the compact palazzo on Mount Vernon Place bequeathed to the city by Henry after he died childless in 1931. Yet, under the aggressive management of Director Richard H. Randall Jr., 40, a Harvard graduate and former New York Metropolitan curator, the Walters is making the most of what William and Henry bought. It has boosted membership with lectures, movies and gallery-sponsored art tours of Europe. And after losing two city votes for bond loans to help finance a $4,500,000 annex, the museum...
RICKENBACKER by Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. 458 pages. Prentice-Hall...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass play host for the first of this "series of specials" that will feature different hosts and guests each week. Guests on "And All That Brass" are Louis Armstrong, Jackie Vernon and Robin Wilson...
...Vernon, N.Y. -- A ban on liquor and a curfew were imposed after two nights of mob disorder...
...first time a U.S. car won a Grand Prix race was in 1921, when Jimmy Murphy of Vernon, Calif., drove a Duesenberg to victory at Le Mans at an average speed of 78.1 m.p.h. in the French Grand Prix. The second time was last week-in the fastest Grand Prix ever run. At Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Ardennes Forest of eastern Belgium, The Star-Spangled Banner blared out over loudspeakers after California's Dan Gurney, 36, in a Formula I American Eagle, averaged 145.67 m.p.h. to win the Belgian Grand Prix...