Art: ACPSAHM's Man

Stocky Horace H. F. (for Howard Furness) Jayne learned to speak Chinese 21 years ago, as an archeologist for Harvard's Fogg Museum. Last week the vice director of the Metropolitan Museum was boning up again, this time to use the language on its home grounds. He is off soon to China to advise the Chinese on preserving their age-old art treasures.

Jayne will be attached to the Roberts Commission (the ten-gallon official title: American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas). Last week, waiting in Washington, Jayne...

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