Word: predecessors
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Francis Taylor's predecessor as director of the Metropolitan, famed Egyptologist Herbert Eustis Winlock, resigned last April because of ill health. When he tackles the job next May, Director Taylor will face many a knotty problem. Chief problem will be to regain some of the initiative the Metropolitan has lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser...
Fortnight ago, Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena visited the Holy Father in the Vatican, as they had his predecessor. Last week the King bestowed the Supreme Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia...