Word: milliken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gather them, Seattle engaged the dean of U.S. museum directors, 72-year-old William M. Milliken, who formerly ran the Cleveland Museum of Art. He had no easy job. Traditionally, museums are reluctant to lend to fairs that have nothing to lend back, and fearing loss or damage, they dislike seeing their prized possessions housed in temporary fair structures where adequate police and fire protection is difficult...
Taking off on a grand tour of North American museums, Milliken assured museum directors that their prizes would be safe and laid his request before them: one masterpiece from each. From Washington's National Gallery of Art, he got John Singleton Copley's vibrant portrait of Epes Sargent. From the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City he got Carravaggio's St.John the Baptist: from Toledo, El Greco's The Annunciation: from the National Gallery of Canada, Chardin's La Gouvernante. North Carolina, Connecticut and California sent handsome loans (see color, opposite and overleaf...
Died. Carl Elias Milliken, 83, somber Prohibitionist who served from 1917 to 1921 as Maine's first fulltime Governor (his predecessors rarely devoted more than a couple of days each month to the job), a onetime president of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society who later became secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and turned against the "pulpiteers" who attacked "improper" movies; of cancer; in Springfield, Mass...
...Frank R. Milliken, 47. was elected president of Kennecott Copper Corp.. succeeding Charles R. Cox, 70, who is retiring...