Word: duncan
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...Including Lieut. Commander Lachlan Ronald Duncan Mackintosh (the Mackintosh of Mackintosh) and Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon (the Cock of the North...
...polarities have long been the Phillips Collection in Washington, an ideal haven for art lovers tucked inside a staid Victorian mansion, and New York's Metropolitan, the nation's largest and richest museum. Last week death came to the two men who directed these institutions: Duncan Phillips, 79, who ran the most intimate of museums, his own, and James Joseph Rorimer, 60, who on a Sunday could watch 47,000 visitors pour through the Met's portals. Both men, in their way, had given visual pleasure, instruction and enlightenment to millions...
...Guards for El Greco. Duncan Phillips was above all else the single-minded connoisseur. His goal: "To stand sponsor especially for the lonely artist in quest of beauty, independent of all cliques and movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became...
...Died. Duncan Phillips, 79, art connoisseur and creator of Washington's magnificent Phillips Collection, through which he shared his treasures with the world; of heart disease; in Washington...
...opening debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...