Criticism of Armand Hammer’s Museum

Re “A Museum Grows in Westwood,” March 13, about industrialist Armand Hammer’s building of a private museum: Occidental Oil’s King of Crude seems to believe that his key to immortality lies in his collection of canvases. Pity that Hammer must amass the bucks to pay for his self-promotion schemes by increasing Oxy’s industrial intrusion into our lives. ELIZABETH MORTIMER

Los Angeles