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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...
...McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...million-plus fortune by making every dollar turn over many times-through borrowing. Son of a Russian immigrant shopkeeper, Chalk grew up in The Bronx (his neighbors were George and Ira Gershwin, and he fielded sandlot grounders batted by Lou Gehrig), rode the subways to New York University Law School ('31). With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story apartment house at 1010 Fifth Avenue (corner of 82nd...
...obvious anxiety to persuade his listeners soon won their support. The Cuban leader's frequently disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...
Average salaries exceeding $10,500 for all faculty members are being paid only by Harvard, Princeton, and the New York School of Social Work, the report showed. The figure at Yale was slightly below this amount...