Famed for parkways and playgrounds, tempers and tirades, is New York City's able Park Commissioner Robert Moses. This week, Park Commissioner Moses, an ex officio member of the boards of all the museums in New York's public parks, sent a report, characteristically caustic and cogent, to Mayor LaGuardia on the present state of the city's museums. Sample criticisms:
> "Museums have a natural tendency to become musty, and this tendency should be combated. In the combat some trustees must change fixed ideas, some must become a trifle more liberal in their outlook, and...
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