Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bliss and her husband, Robert W. Bliss, formally transferred their estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard to house the Center for Byzantine Studies. Later a collection of pre-Columbian art and a library of garden design were added...
...Dumbarton Oaks is best known for its formal garden, which both critics and proponents of the current plan agree is one of the most beautiful in the world...
Obscure Congressman. Hiss was well-launched on a brilliant career when scandal struck. He had been a student of Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference that laid the foundation for the United Nations. He went to Yalta with F.D.R. in 1945, specialized in Far Eastern affairs at State, and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when his world collapsed...
...Assume risk of loss rather than insuring Fine Arts in Dumbarton Oaks Museum--value $7,978,588--Annual premium and record of losses last 10 years. (Fogg and Peabody do not insure Harvard owned Fine Arts...
Prior to his appointment to the Corporation, Kane advised Conant on educational policy issues. On the Corporation, he was known for his fundraising and his special concern for Harvard's non-Cambridge outposts, like the Byzantine Studies Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington and Renaissance research center at Villa I Tatti, near Florence, Italy...