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...recording of opening fanfare played over sound system at intervals in the lobby." From the turning of the sod to the tootling of the brass, the building has cost $16 million and provoked steady criticism from those who see it as a feat of egotism. (Not even Andrew Mellon, critics complain, insisted that his name should stay in the title of "his" nearby National Gallery.) The Hirshhorn Museum is a branch of the Smithsonian Institution. But for the moment it is saddled with the reputation of a private fief built with public money, so far containing nothing but Hirshhorn...
...example, two Rothko paintings were sold to the Liechtenstein firm of Galleria Bernini (two of whose directors also sit on the boards of four Marlborough shells). The Galleria paid $140,000 for them, of which the estate received $84,000. But Mrs. Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale...
...Edna McConnell Clark, Hazen and Mellon foundations, the JDR Third Fund and the Carnegie Corporation of New York...
...CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
...three--Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Kenneth O. Dike, Mellon Professor of African History--explained that a number of factors, including the presence in Africa of large numbers of Portuguese settlers, combine to place substantial obstacles across the road to full independence...