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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Art Institute, the third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...
Since the resignation of Daniel Catton Rich last year, the Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...rest of this elegantly furnished, tastefully Metrocolored film, in which director Jean (A Certain Smile) Negulesco has tried to turn Nancy Mitford's nit-witty high-society farce (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951) into a conventional comedy, develops into a fairly funny, mildly sophisticated what-is-it, rather like an interpolation of The Diary of a Chambermaid with the last six books of the Odyssey...
...funds and thousands of individual investors buy and sell. In this select group of experts, who can often send a stock zipping up-or down -the leading chartist is generally recognized to be Edmund W. Tabell, 55, the tall (6 ft. 2½ in.), mustached vice president and research director of Walston & Co. Tabell keeps 2,500 charts, biggest number on Wall Street, has used them to score a topflight record in predicting market swings. Says Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "Ed Tabell is the best bird dog on the Street. When he points...
Bald Up. In Rome, lured by reports that an American movie director wanted bald actors, twelve men shaved their heads Brynner-bare, learned too late that they had fallen for a practical joke...