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...chief claimants to the paintings are Henry Bondi, 76, a biochemical engineer in Princeton, N.J., and Rita Reif, a semiretired arts reporter for the New York Times. Wally had belonged to Bondi's aunt, a Viennese art dealer named Lea Bondi Jaray. Shortly before she fled to London in 1938, it was seized from her by a Nazi art dealer; eventually it passed through the hands of the Austrian Gallery and ended up in the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and self-styled art historian and restorer whose Schiele collection is institutionalized today as the Leopold Foundation. Dead...
...Bondi and Reif had asked MOMA to keep the works in New York until the legal title to the pictures was clarified. "The museum," said Reif, "must make a moral determination on this." Exactly wrong: the museum's responsibility for moral issues stops with the works in its own collection. MOMA had a loan contract with the Leopold Foundation to return the works to Vienna as soon as the show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them...
...York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is seeking support during this election year for his bill on property restitution to the heirs of the Holocaust, which passed the Senate in November and awaits House action. "It is of course political," said Schroder. He dismisses the Reif and Bondi claims as invalid, as the statute of limitations has expired, and vehemently defends Rudolf Leopold as a good-faith purchaser...
Columbia's lone score came on a oneplay, 80-yard drive at the start of the second quarter. With the Lions down 21-0, tight end Bert Bondi beat Harvard cornerback Derek Yankoff over the middle on the first play of a Columbia drive from its own 20-yard line. After that it was a foot-race between Bondi, Yankoff and the free safety, which Bondi won diving into the end zone...
With less pressure on its secondary, Harvard's much-heralded defensive front four and linebackers-third in the nation against the run last season-should have an easier time stopping Bivens and fullback Bert Bondi, himself also a receiving threat in short yardage situations...