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Other women who hold the rank of full professor in the University and are active faculty members are Sirapie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon Professor of Byzantine Art and Archeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington; Cora Du Bois, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy...
Seek the Unhappy. Scotty Reston's first big break came in 1944 after he had moved to the Times's Washington bureau. The Allied powers were meeting at Dumbarton Oaks, in Georgetown, to think about organized world security. Employing his theory that "you should always look around for the guys who are unhappy," Reston found them among the Chinese. Their unhappiness was translated, by Reston persuasion, into a stunning gift: the entire position papers of the Allied powers attending the conference. This was a smashing scoop, and any other reporter probably would have hurled the caboodle onto Page...
...array of Dumbarton Oaks exclusives elevated Reston to the top rank of Washington correspondents. Other exclusive stories followed with impressive rapidity. At the San Francisco United Nations conference in 1945, the press corps gathered for an important press conference at which the key figure was Britain's Anthony Eden. The Times expected Reston to handle the story, but he could not be found. Then a door opened, and Eden strolled in chatting confidentially with a man at his side-Scotty Reston...
Denmark's Hansen, 51, actually came to the U.S. to attend a friend's wedding in Manhattan, traveled on to Washington for a 30-min. White House call and a cornerstone ceremony at the new Danish embassy in Dumbarton Oaks. Hansen made a point of sending a get-well message to John Foster Dulles. Unmentioned, but appreciated by the Secretary of State: Hansen recently was found to have throat cancer, apparently conquered it with an operation last October...
...copy, formerly in the Manhattan collection of Michael Friedsam, had been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function...