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...mediocre 17th century copyist named Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in the July 28 auction catalogue. Then it was hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered one day last July. As he surveyed the two plump goddesses surrounding Paris and Venus, Millar now recalls, "I smelled a Rubens...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...
Unhappy Distinction. All the while, Portland State has been gaining in academic quality, much to the credit of President Branford P. Millar, 51, and his deep belief in the urban college as "the fastest growing segment of higher education." The parents of most Portland State students never went to college. But, says Millar, they and their children understand the fundamental fact of the times: "This is the generation that is going to have to live on its brains." The corollary of this concept, he believes, is the American philosophical commitment to democracy. "Higher education must be available...
Want sycamores today! Julia Cheever, ' John Millar...
...KENNETH MILLAR...