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...whom the curse might be expected to rest heavily is healthy Herbert Eustis Winlock, the Metropolitan Museum's present Curator of Egyptology, who was very much in the thick of things at Luxor. Not for ten years did skeptical Mr. Winlock, 50 this week, bother to comment on the curse legend. In Manhattan last week, concerned about his friend and predecessor, he called the Boston hospital daily to learn Dr. Lythgoe's condition. When he found the hospital telephones so jammed by calls from curse-believers that he could hardly get his own calls through, Mr. Winlock...
...little pieces of canvas slightly bigger than a man's shirtfront last week raised the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art high in the list of the world's repositories. Bursting with pride Director Herbert Eustis Winlock placed on exhibition the most important purchase the museum has ever made out of its own funds, two panels joined together by hinges, bought after four years of stealthy negotiation from the Soviet Government: "The Crucifixion" and the "Last Judgement," generally attributed to Hubert van Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center RCA building, on Man's Relationship to Society. He and Architect Raymond Hood had affably agreed last winter on a composition showing Christ's Sermon on the Mount to symbolize Man and Religion. The Rockefeller Center art committee, including Director Herbert E. Winlock of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, suggested diffidently that it might not be "fitting to put the figure of Christ in a business building" as "too strong a representation of an individual religion." Somebody thought of representing Christ as "a light shining down from Heaven and bathing...
Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...purchase (secretly made eight months ago), Mr. Mackay resigned as a trustee of the Museum. Either because he was attempting to deny that Clarence Mackay needed the money, or to reassure bankers who are supposed to have lent much money on the security of the Mackay art collection, Director Winlock added a statement to last week's announcement...