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Johnson's heroine is Chloe Fowler; she and Jeffrey, her husband of twelve years and a renowned thoracic surgeon, take off for a two-month visit to a medical school and hospital in Shiraz, where he will serve as a consultant and she will pursue a brief study of Sassanian pottery. Awaiting a connecting flight in London, Jeffrey learns of an emergency in his medical practice and decides to return to San Francisco. He urges Chloe to go on ahead without him; Sara and Max, their two small children, will be fine with the plans already made for their care...
...comparable, in their fields, to the Met's tiny sphinx of Amenhotep III, modeled in a faïence of such dazzling blue that even in a glass case it seems to vibrate in front of one's eyes; or the massive silver head, possibly of the Sassanian King Shapur II; or the exquisitely elaborated 17th century flintlock gun made by Pierre le Bourgeoys for Louis XIII; or even such small items as a 3rd century B.C. bronze of a Greek dancer, whirling on her axis like a Hellenistic Martha Graham...
...never knows where his next piece will come from--he says he can find anything a customer wants. He sells everything from a wooden Upper Volta Bobo ladel for $240 to an 18th century Americana rocking horse for $450. In typical disorder, one case holds both a small Archaic Sassanian plate for $750 and an 18th century enamel pill...
...Museum former New York Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving, 36, has put his theatrical talents to good use. To get New Yorkers to take a fresh view of the Met's treasures, he displayed some 600 of them, ranging from the silver portrait of a 4th century Sassanian king to Marie Antoinette's doghouse, under the title "In the Presence of Kings." The array drew 62,000 visitors to the museum on a recent Sunday. Last week Hoving demonstrated that showmanship leads to acquisitions...
What Persia and China quarreled about in the Seventh Century no U. S. Persian could remember last week. An agreement between the two countries was signed in 1920, but even that did not result in an exchange of representatives. In fact no quarrel occurred. When the Sassanian dynasty fell 1,300 years ago all permanent relations with foreign countries were broken off. Successively Persia was ruled by various Arab conquerors, the Turks, Afghans. Recently Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi, who has been anxious to restore diplomatic relations after the 1,300-year lapse, discovered that Nanking was also willing. Hossein Khan...