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Career: First Secretary Canada's Department of External Affairs at its formation in 1928, thereafter Counselor to the Canadian High Commissioner in London and Canadian Ambassador in Washington. Saw the birth of U.N. at Dumbarton Oaks (1944) and San Francisco (1945). In 1948, after winning a by-election in the rough & tumble riding of Algoma East (19,320 square miles) in north central Ontario, he took full cabinet rank as Secretary of State for External Affairs. Chairman NATO conference at Lisbon this year. Considered a good bet to be Canada's Prime Minister some...
After 35 years, Professor Emeritus Morey, now 74, has come close to realizing an old dream: giving scholars a chance to see all the examples of art on any particular subject almost at a glance. Where-ever complete copies of the index exist-at Princeton, and at Dumbarton Oaks-U.S. scholars have been able to do in one day research that would once have taken months. Now, with a third copy safely installed in Rome through funds raised by Cardinal Spellman, European scholars are at last able to do the same...
Barber: Knoxville, "Summer of 1915" (Eleanor Steber, soprano, with the Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra, William Strickland conducting; Columbia, I side LP). James Agee's autobiographical essay of the same name appealingly set to song; Soprano Steber, who commissioned the music, sings it beautifully. Recording: excellent...
...that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council at San Francisco. By 1949, he had so impressed the trustees with his executive ability that they appointed him provost and later vice president as well...
Sirarple Der Nergessian came to Dumbarton Oaks as professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology from Wellesley College. Arthur M. Friend Jr, from Princeton is the Senior Scholar, Two junior fellows, Milton V. Anastos and Ernest Zitzinger have just been promoted to positions as associate professors...