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Some of the marvels fashioned by the craftsmen of those eras could be seen last week at Sotheby's in London, where 142 objects from the collection of the late Melvin Gutman went on view (see color). Gutman was a strange man. Son of a Wall Street stockbroker, he made a fortune in the stock market, and at the age of 29 conceived a passion for antique jewelry. He never married, and for the last 34 years of his life he never strayed far from his Manhattan apartment. When he died last year...
...official Munich residence. On the other hand, an enchanting 17th century heart-shaped crystal pendant with the tiny figures of Eve and the serpent, is believed by Parke-Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned by a grateful grandee whose prayer to a saint or the Virgin had been answered, and was intended to be reverently set before the saint's altar in some unknown church...
...James Gutman is in the MAT program at the Harvard Ed School. Clyde Lindsay and Frank Rich are members eof the CRIMSON's editorial board. John Short edits the Supplement...
Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education said that Gutman's gift had provided " a tremendous boost in out efforts to complete the campaign during the next twelve months." A recent challenge grant of $500,000 by the Kresge Foundation requires that the balance of the project's cost be raised by July...
...largest in a series of gifts to the University by Gutman over the past two decades. A gift in support of the work of Prof. Donald W. Oliver of the Faculty of Education in the 1950's led to the later establishment of Project Social Studies, which has produced a series of pamphlets used to teach the analysis of public controversy in hundreds of public school systems in the United States. A more recent gift by Gutman has enabled Oliver to undertake a new project involving the study of communication processes by high school students. Mr. Gutman has also established...