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...with remarkable fidelity. There are reproductions of paintings and frescoes by such masters as El Greco, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Gozzoli, Giorgione and Bellini. Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid for a painting until Rembrandt's Aristotle (on TIME's cover that issue) went to the Metropolitan Museum...
...black market. A queue began forming on the sidewalk more than an hour before the auction was to begin; not only Parke-Bernet's main gallery, but also three others, equipped with closed-circuit TV, were jammed to overflowing. Everyone from Billy Rose to Paul Mellon, from Perle Mesta to Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was on hand. No art auction in history had aroused more curiosity...
...Avalon Foundation, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon* and ex-wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's David K. E. Bruce, gave $500,000 to endow a new chair in the history of science at Yale. The Avalon Foundation has made grants totaling more than $25 million since its founding, including $2,500,000 to Manhattan's Lincoln Center and $1,100,000 to all 86 U.S. medical schools to supplement scholarship funds...
...Whose A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust has given away $157.8 million mostly to found Washington's National Gallery of Art and to educational and civic rebuilding projects concentrated in Pittsburgh during the last three decades. Among the various family trusts blooded by Andrew W. Mellon, the largest is Son Paul's Old Dominion Foundation, which has given more than $22 million to his alma mater, Yale...
...Committee of the Center. The members, appointed by the Trustees, are J. Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ernest Brooks, Jr. of New York City; David K.E. Bruce of Washington, D.C.; Huntington Cairns of Washington, D.C.; R. Keith Kane of New York City; Paul Mellon, founder of the Old Dominion Foundation, of Washington, D.C.; Adolph W. Schmidt of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Stoddard M. Stevens of New York City...