Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Jade in Hong Kong. To most Seattleites, the man behind their "Bird in Art" show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...
...Director Fuller came by his money through his father, a pioneering Manhattan urological surgeon with a canny eye for investments. His taste in art he owes to his mother, who began collecting Chinese antiques and Oriental snuff bottles in 1918, later took the whole Fuller family on a year-long junket through the Far East. Recalls Fuller: "I bought a small white jade in Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest...
Glass in the Pocket. Dr. Fuller's well-padded pocketbook has allowed him to move fast when he sees a bargain. What makes his position enviable and almost unique among U.S. museum men is that, as unpaid director and one of the principal backers of the museum, he can run his show as he pleases. As an aid to on-the-spot decisions, he always carries in his pocket a 14-power geologist's magnifying glass, noting that "in some ways both art and geology are a matter of trained observation." One peek into the top of some...
...getting them out of "their children's (and grandchildren's) hair. Too many go to state hospitals, where they do not belong. Even in Massachusetts, a state where (as in New Hampshire, New York, Iowa) formidable thought has gone into programs to bring longer and fuller life to the aged, 5% of people over 65 live in old people's homes. The rest are in their own homes or those of kinfolk...
...dozen New England Senators, spoke for his area's Northeast Airlines; New York championed Pan American World Airways; so did Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall. since Pan Am has promised to revive Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, if certified. Florida's ex-Governor Fuller Warren "begged for five minutes." spoke ten, predicted that "hundreds of Eastern's Miami employees" would be out of work if a new carrier was added to the route. He gestured feelingly at two rows filled with silent, blue-shirted Eastern employees, who had come up to the hearings...