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...every seven students, it is not surprising that most students, according to a recent poll, feel they are personally well known to at least one faculty member, and over half to at least three. The poll was the work of Dr. Carl Binger '10, head of Vassar's Mellon Foundation, set up in 1949 by a gift of $2,000,000. A preliminary report came out in November, and the results were just about what had been expected...
Students and alumnae told the Mellon pollers that in "extra-curricular activities the community favors students with certain types of backgrounds." This oblique suspicion of snobbery was dispelled by the report...
...gifts, added to the magnificent earlier ones of Andrew Mellon, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Lessing Rosenwald and the Kress Foundation, make the National Gallery a giant...
...matter of fact that Andrew Mellon bought Raphael's famed Alba Madonna from the Russian government in 1931, that he paid a whopping $1,166,400 for the picture, and that it now hangs in Washington's Mellonrbuilt National Gallery. So why on earth should the Reds claim they still have the painting? That question, raised in last week's Art News magazine, put critics in a whirl. It need not have...
...source of Art News's story was Voks Bulletin, a Communist "cultural relations" magazine published in Moscow. What Voks Bulletin actually said was that Leningrad's Hermitage collection includes two Raphaels-The Holy Family and the Conestabile Madonna* which is true. Voks blunderingly illustrated the story with Mellon's Madonna, mislabeled it The Holy Family. People have been sent to Siberia for less...