Willem De Kooning: White-Maned And Lionized
March, 1961
Today, as in ancient Roman days, the things which are Caesar's are rapidly being rendered unto Caesar. Chic, prestigious hotels across the Western Hemisphere are being added to the corporate holdings of thirty-seven-year-old, exbellhop Cesar Balsa as though part of a rigged game of Monopoly. His recent acquisition of New York's St. Regis (five million clams for a two-hundred-year lease) was historic, for it meant that Cesar had crossed the Rio Grande into the plush hunting grounds of the U.S.A....
