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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...
Despite his deep interest in the ancient and the Oriental, Seattle's Fuller firmly believes that "it is a museum's duty to support local people and to spur local art of quality." As a result, he has played a key role in promoting the Northwest's regional school, which includes such top artists as Tobey, Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson. One Seattle art dealer summed up Patron-Director Fuller's contribution with feeling: "Dr. Fuller has brought art to the Northwest and the art of the Northwest to the world...
...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...