Word: borsook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BORSOOK...
...college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...