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...Stuart Hughes, professor of History, William Hefner, defeated Democratic candidate for Congress in the first district, Elizabeth Boardman, who came close to winning last year's Republican Congressional nomination in the third district, and the following members-at-large: Crosby Forbes '50; Jerome Grossman '38 (Hughes' campaign manager); Chester Hartman '57; Mrs. Mark deWolfe Howe; the Rev. John Paul Jones; Everett Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science; Suzanne Metzger; Martin Peretz, teaching fellow in Government; Sumner M. Rosen '48; and Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature...
...Died. Chester Dale. 79, keenly perceptive Wall Street broker who amassed one of the world's best collections of modern French painting; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Dale," she said, "do you realize that you have spent over $1,000,000 on your hobby?" Chester Dale may or may not have realized it. but that first million was eventually to mount to at least $9.000.000 more. He was to accumulate one of the world's best private collections of French painting from David to Cezanne along with such "ancestors" as Rubens, in whom he saw a kinship to Renoir, and such later masters as Picasso...
...which he became president in 1955, but he would watch carefully to see how a painting that he had lent was hung before he would make it a permanent gift. As the years advanced, one of the big questions for all major U.S. museums was: Where would the Chester Dale Collection finally...
Survival Test. So sharply has the Bay changed that when Chester wanted to give his protégé Murray the toughest training the company could offer, he did not send him to the Arctic to deal with the Eskimos, but down to the New York fur auction to see how he would survive among the Seventh Avenue furriers. Murray succeeded so well that today the Bay's New York fur auction is the world's largest; ironically, though, it handles no wild fur-only tame, ranch-bred varieties...