Word: museums
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Richard D. Buck '27 will assume the office of Conservator of the Fogg Art Museum after a year's absence as adviser to the National Gallery in London, Provost Buck announced last night. Buck sailed for England on the Queen Mary yesterday...
Buck, who has been a conservator in the museum since 1937, will be responsible for restoring and preserving the University's works...
This week in London, the Royal Academy, having worked over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...
Those teeth, of course, are museum pieces; such things don't get lost every day. But plenty of textbooks, coats, overshoes, and other pedestrian items pop up in one place or another during the year, and don't get claimed. The several depositories hold lost articles for a sufficient period of time, but that alone doesn't insure a competent lost-and-found system. The loser should have every chance to pick up his property; he can't do that unless he knows where to look...
...succeed 63-year-old President George Whitney. Born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...