Ringling Museum Disposition Debate Sparks Florida Arts Controversy
A longtime columnist weighs the Ringling Art Museum policy on dispersing inferior works and exchanging pieces with other museums. He argues for keeping the top collection intact, urges intelligent compromise, and cautions against politicizing the venue while praising exchanges that benefit public access and education.
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Ringling Art Museum
Florida
Ringling
Ringling Museum
Austin
Congressman Haley
John Ringling
United States
Europe
Metropolitan Museum
New York
Ringlings
East Reich Grants Divorces Over Political Differences
East Germany reports a high divorce rate with 29 000 of 152 000 marriages ending in divorce in 1956. Communist laws allow divorce when marriage hinders political work and alimony is not required, while equal rights demand wives work for living. Most divorces occur in marriages ten to twenty years long.
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East Reich
Ellen Lentz
United Press International Berlin
UPI
East Germany
West Germany
East Berlin
East Zone
Free-Wheeling Ballot Greets Carolina Voters
In Brunswick North Carolina this town holds a four year vote for mayor and council with a ballot listing 42 registered male voters. The highest vote getter becomes mayor and the next four join the Town Council while 75 eligible voters exist and write-ins are allowed for women.
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Brunswick
N.C
North Carolina
Best Sellers by Publisher's Auxiliary
Fiction selections include Anatomy of a Murder Tra ver The Winthrop Woman Seton Ice Palace Ferber A Summer Place Wilson North from Rome Mae Innes. Nonfiction lists Masters of Deceit Hoover Inside Russia Today Gunther Please Dont Eat the Daisies Kerr Kids Say the Darndest Things Linkletter Madison Avenue USA Mayer.
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Anatomy
Winthrop
Seton
Hoover
Russia
Gunther
Kerr
Linkletter
Madison Avenue
U.S.A
Mayer
Pre Natal Check Set Aims to Cut Mental Handicap Rates
NIH launches a nationwide study led by Dr. Richard Masland to test prenatal factors influencing mental retardation. Fourteen maternity centers will monitor 40 000 mother child pairs from pregnancy to age six to identify environmental and genetic contributors and improve prevention.
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Darrell Garwood Washington
UPI
Richard Massand
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Masland
Safest Drive Highlighted by Sarasota Traffic Map
A police wall map of 1958 Sarasota traffic accidents marks Main Street as the busiest but not the most deadly. Most crashes were minor fender scrapes while the few serious incidents clustered at the South Trail and Ringling corridors. Island causeways show far fewer crashes, suggesting beaches as the safest drive.
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Sarasota
Main Street
J. C. Wingate
10Th Street
North Trail
Sgt. Wingate
Lido
St. Armands Key
City Island
Ringling
Bay Island
Police Department
Two Day Showing Of Top Paintings At Chrysler Exhibition
Local artists may submit works by 4 p.m. Sunday for a Walter P. Chrysler Jr regional contemporary competition. A jury including Kenneth Donahue James Byrnes and Robert Hunter will select regional entries Monday for a two day viewing in Gallery 18. The exhibit features top Florida Georgia and Carolinas artists with previews for Ringling officials and painters Monday 8 to 10 p.m. The public sees the show Tuesday and Wednesday before it travels to Province town Massachusetts for the national competition.
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Walter P. Chrysler Jr
Florida
Georgia
Two
Carolinas
Ringling Art Museum
Provincebourg
Provincetown
Mass
Donahue
Chrysler
Inmates Gift $75 to Aid Pal Parole
Inmates at Ionia Reformatory raised $75 to help a fellow inmate reach Washington for parole. The Hill Top News reports the parole board had refused release for lack of funds to travel, but a swift prisoner fundraiser enabled his release.
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Ionia, Mich
UPI
Ionia Reformatory
Washington
The
Hill Top News
Dognapping Charge Faces Ni Ce and H Smith
Ni Ce and H Smith faced dognapping charges after a watchman found Smith in the city pound with one dog in his arms and another loaded in his automobile.
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Aper Nice Sie
H. Smith
Smith
Sarasota County sees new school report card idea and juvenile case load
Columbia University experts discuss a Sarasota County tone setting school report card measuring wealth education and teacher background while Gus Bischoff, juvenile counselor, reports 46 cases last month. County road plans favor through traffic roads and preserve existing paving bonds rather than a new 5 million dollar bond.
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Gus Bischoff
G. M. Nelson
County Commission
Nelson
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