By all means, ruled the trustees, the Art Institute of Chicago should accept the traveling show of Amateur Winston Churchill's paintings (TIME, Feb. 10). No, growled Director Daniel Catton Rich, 54, "we do not show the work of amateurs unless they have been passed by professional juries." Rich won the debate; the Churchill exhibit (which last month drew a record 147,255 spectators at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art) was turned down. Having dealt decisively with the threat of being overruled, Dan Rich last week coolly resigned.
Rich planned it that way all along. He...
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