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...recent vast growth of this debt has led to new concern by Government and economists about just how far it can go without danger. The Government has threatened to tighten credit immediately if there are signs that it is getting out of hand, and Joseph W. Barr, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., has suggested that Congress next year undertake a thorough examination of the whole credit situation. Such an examination might prove enlightening, but few businessmen and bankers, who are mostly the ones who grant the credit, feel that it is necessary. So long as incomes and employment...
...Nutty Enough Staff. A blue-chip board of 25 trustees is composed of rich Floridians, influential laymen (President Henry Chauncy of the Educational Testing Service and Alfred Barr Jr., director of collections for the Museum of Modern Art, for example), and five Congregational ministers, who represent church help in founding the school but who shun any supposition that they should exercise religious control over it. With such impressive auspices, New College persuaded Historian Arnold Toynbee to be visiting professor this winter. He had doubts about the heat, but Baughman astutely pointed out the precedents for intellectual achievement in warm climates...
Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...
...collection, and always planned to switch time-tested art to dustier museums. It bought paintings on the calculation that one out of a dozen might have permanent value. "Today's masterpiece is sometimes tomorrow's bore," wrote the first director, now director of museum collections, Alfred H. Barr Jr., in 1942. Even today, the official permanent collection numbers fewer than 20 works...
Other predictions: Adlai Stevenson, Thurgood Marshall, Jose Figueres, Philip Hofer, Whitney Young, Mark Rothko, Wilmarth Lewis, Mary I. Bunting, Krister Stendahl, Donald R. Griffin, George Beadle Alfred H. Barr, Leonard Baskin, Archibald Cox, Paul Nitze, Alfred A. Knopf, Walter Muir Whitehill, and Clifford K. Shipton...