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Union League members viewed nude Paul Robeson with horror last week, rushed with complaints to portly, whitechinned Dr. George Frederick Kunz, gem expert of Tiffany & Co., chairman of the club's art committee, who summoned Sculptor Salemme...
...casual observer, knowing the taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual observer would be wrong. Resident Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists...
Platinum Pieces? Among the over-produced metals is platinum, selling at $34.50 an ounce against $62.50 a year ago. Last week in The Mineral Industry Dr. George Frederick Kunz, gem specialist with Tiffany & Co., suggested that platinum be stabilized by the Government at $50 per ounce, used as currency. A $20 platinum piece would weigh 20% less, be 30% smaller than a $10 gold piece...
Humiliation. Said Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz, flying wife of Tiffany & Co.'s vice president: "It is humiliating to admit that at present there seems to be no American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days...
...London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz, mineralogist and gem expert, an honorary fellow of the American Museum of Natural History, who had visited every world's fair since the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Announcement of the Towne bequest sent experts in agriculture, animal industry, mining and metallurgy, transportation, engineering, aeronautics, etc., etc., flocking to Europe...