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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the U.S., and Kingman Brewster, president of Yale and the newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. More than 800 distinguished guests, including the directors of London's Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum plus multimillionaire Art Collector Paul Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Shrine to the Age of Reason | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...East Asian Studies program has received $600,000 from the Mellon Foundation as part of a fund drive to establish a permanent endowment for the East Asian Research Center...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Asia Center Receives $600,000 | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...Mellon gift is one of 11 grants presented to East Asian centers in the country...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Asia Center Receives $600,000 | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...center may receive $600,000 from the Ford Foundation if it can be matched by three times that amount. The Mellon gift will be used to help reach the $1.8 million needed...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Asia Center Receives $600,000 | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener, to contribute their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1977 | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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