Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit Adoration, a medium-sized (23¾ in. by 18½ in.) painting, had long been in the possession of an old Roman family. Eventually it made its way to Switzerland, arrived in the U.S. seven or eight years ago. Detroit Director Edgar P. Richardson believed in the authenticity of the painting "from the first time I saw it," and persuaded a group of Detroit art patrons to chip in and buy it. Price: an estimated...
Apparently Verrocchio sketched in the design of the Madonna and outlined the position of the Child, and Leonardo finished the painting. Director Richardson insists that there is no question of the painting's authenticity, has the support of eight of the world's outstanding Leonardo experts. But he admits that it may be years before all doubts are cleared...
...singles players, however, preferred to play their matches at a later date. Therefore, defending champion Junta will play Freiburg, seeded fourth, here on May 31, and second seeded Carl Hirschman of Williams will oppose Amherst's fourth seeded Tom Richardson in the Amherst-Williams match this Tuesday. The two winners will play the final round at a date which will be determined after the Junta-Freiburg match is completed...
...university should abolish entrance requirements for Nevada high-school graduates. He also did away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson's act was the climax of a long record of insubordination. After a brief hearing...
...Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...