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...first plan to raise money came from the foundation's new president, a lawyer named Richard Glanton. Early in 1991, Glanton proposed selling "redundant" works to pay for the repairs he considered necessary, the cost of which was estimated at $15 million. He proposed selling a minimum of 15 paintings, and he discussed sales of up to $100 million (some sources say $200 million) with Sotheby...
...foundation denied the public access to the collection until a Pennsylvania judge in 1960 forced open the doors for 2 1/2 days a week. Now the trustees, led by Richard Glanton, a Philadelphia attorney who is general counsel for Lincoln University and the Barnes' new president, are trying to break the hold of tradition further and, as they see it, move the Barnes into the 21st century...
Tenor Franco Corelli is a former Italian rowing champion, while Tenor Placido Domingo tried out as a bullfighter in Mexico. Now Middle Linebacker Paul Glanton, 20, of the University of Minnesota Gophers seems likely to become yet another singing sportsman. Each afternoon these days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference...
Reason the new Tabernacle Church of Christ will be completely free of debt is its chief donor: massive, 74-year-old Columbus Banker William Glanton Irwin, director of a dozen corporations, one of those never-publicized U. S. millionaires...