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Hearty Joseph Duveen, who died (in 1939) Lord Duveen of Millbank, bullied and cajoled two generations of U.S. multimillionaires into amassing some of the greatest private art collections in history. Today the firm is headed by two mild-mannered former Duveen assistants, President Edward Fowles and Vice President Bertram Boggis. The old "super-customers," as Vice President Boggis calls them, have disappeared. In their place are some "very good customers." Who they are, Fowles and Boggis prefer not to say. "Nobody would deal with you if you were so indiscreet as to tell...
...Queen's Approval. Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
...years of canny buying, with expert prompting from Britain's No. 1 merchant of art, Lord Duveen of Millbank, made the Bache collection eminently worth seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
...Millbank Pillsbury '42 will take the platform for the Defense League; Edward Ames '42 will speak for the Liberal Union; Wild will represent American Defense, Harvard Group; Charles S. Bridge '42 and James Lanigan 3L, who worked for the Wages and Hours Administration before he entered the Law School, will speak as independents...
...elections held on Wednesday night, the Freshman Division of the Student Union chose the following executive committee: Robert Stange, chairman; W. Millbank Pillsbury, secretary; Leo Marx, Roger Clapp, and Stephen H. Horton...