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...though not in England or Europe. But what provoked the A.D.A. was the discovery, reported by John Canaday in the New York Times, that last May the Metropolitan had secretly sold two paintings to the Liechtenstein branch of a leading international dealer, Marlborough Fine Art. The pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more of its paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, had also been traded to Marlborough for two unnamed works of art. Though the Metropolitan refuses to confirm or deny...
...A.D.A.'s chief objection was to the secrecy of the Rousseau-Van Gogh sale. Its statement urged that, when a museum sells a work, other American museums should have "ample opportunity" to buy it, and that if they do not, the work should be "offered widely in the market so that the maximum proceeds are assured to the selling institution." Neither of these conditions was met by the sale to Marlborough, the dealers insist. Finally, said the A.D.A., "if a museum does not subscribe to the foregoing principles and offers works ...privately or secretly," dealers were wholly entitled...
...judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt of jokes" for the rest of his life...
...Bruins, now leading 3-2 in games, fell victim to overconfidence and a tenacious Ranger effort in Tuesday's game which saw some atypical Boston scoring difficulties, notably on the part of Phil Esposito, and the offensive resurgence of Ranger retread Bobby Rousseau, who scored both the tying and winning goals...
...presented, the Bruins carried a 2-1 lead into the final 20 minutes as they tried for the clincher on their home ice. But the Rangers, who skated 89 seconds near the end of the second period with two men in the penalty box, would not be denied. Rousseau tied the score at 2:54 when his shot dribbled through the pads of goalie Ed Johnston, who played another brilliant game in the Boston nets...