
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 13, 1991                   TAG: 9103130226
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: E-9   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

Walter H. Annenberg, publisher, philanthropist and former U.S. ambassador in London who will be 83 today, said Monday he would bequeath about $1 billion worth of paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The gift, which will be the largest single donation in more than a half-century to the museum's department of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, includes Annenberg's entire collection of more than 50 paintings by Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Picasso and Braque.

> Hank Ketcham, creator of the mophead cartoon character Dennis the Menace, has dedicated a $200,000 playground he designed at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women in Orlando, Fla.

"I don't like teeter-totters or swings," said Ketcham as he showed off the play area for children who are disabled or recovering from such maladies as spina bifida and cancer. The playground features cushioned flooring and recreational equipment that can be used to help children exercise as well as have fun, hospital officials said Monday.

The playground is the second one designed by Ketcham. This one took special effort because childhood disabilities had to be kept in mind, within an atmosphere that would be "un-hospital," Ketcham said.

by CNB