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The Boston Globe Wednesday, August 10, 1966 25 His Rugs Aren't for Hopscotch By PHYLLIS COONS ed his exhibition of rugs at the has found that being an ex- task was tracking down the Globe Furnishings Editor Museum of Fine Arts, said pert is "a wonderful way to century reciprocal tree he enjoys being consulted for stay broke." pattern once owned by WilIf it weren't for his love of indoor hopscotch, advice. He, lectures all over the liam K. Vanderbilt. Joseph V. McMullan would never have become in- For instance, he has had world on Islamic art when "I found out about the rug terested in Islamic a hand in redoing the ladies isn't needed as honorary 50 years ago, then spent 20 he rugs.

lounges in New York's Har- officer of a well-known steel years looking for it," he said. McMullan, now the world's greatest collector vard Club. mill. "I went to every Vanderbilt of Islamic (and also "I got them Heriz He already has given some auction, from the Duchess of rugs an honorary Research rugs from West Persia, They of the finest rugs in his colMarlborough's ty collection Fellow in Islamic art at Harvard), said the fun start- are the best in price ($6 a lection to leading museums down. I finally discovered 'it ed "when my father brought home a pair of inex- square foot retail), quality, here and abroad.

The rest are in a Twombley auction." color and design for that willed to museums. Plates of finest of McMullan's pensive Caucasian rugs. I played hopscotch on purpose." 150 rugs illustrate the history collection, once a pair of Arthem. Then he died when I was seven and they be- McMullan said rugs from of Islamic art in his, new debil rugs of 1539-40, is in the the East were inferior in the book, "Islamic Carpets," pub- Victoria and Albert Museum gan to mean more to me." 19th century because too lished by the Near Eastern in London. One, the fragment many persons tried to im- Art Center, Inc.

with an eight-lobed medalBut it wasn't until 1930 that ized but you wouldn't want prove on basic designs. McMullan "I have 3000 books on Is- lion, was cut up to complete bought his first to walk on real flowers, "Putting fringe on a Kurd lamic rugs in my New York the other. ment store. art are the liberties you take said. Also, he said they mis- But what stands out in his Usually it's the last one I disrug--in a York depart- would you? Conventions in rug is an abomination," he house," McMullan said.

"What is my favorite rug? New "I paid around $300 for it with the real thing. A tapes- used anilne dies which ran. Boston house at Chestnut cover. but it was a piece of junk. try tells a story' often about Fortunately chemical prog- st.

is the 17th century East "How do I choose them? I began to study rugs your family. So, you hang it ress in mixing Alarisian dyes Persian rug which was the By what Then they express to meand collect them because I on a wall. You wouldn't want now fixes the color and model of 18th and 19th cen- village or court made. I don't wanted to find out why that to walk on Aunt Nellie, or comes closest to the original tury Caucasian ones. Its mate count the number of knots.

rug was junk." even a stylized Aunt Nellie, vegetable dyes onion for is in the Boston exhibition. You wouldn't count the Through his studies, he would you?" yellow, walnut for brown, The rug has lateral Pal- brush strokes of a painting, found the rug by McMullan said today's bride minerals or blackshell fish mettes or flowers in profile would you?" repatriated Greek girls after often starts out all wrong fish for other colors. that alternate with rosettes, Even McMullan's paintings the Turkish occupation. It with rugs. Persian villagers grow round flower designs seen on his Chestnut st.

walls have fell apart because it was "Who gives her a valuable madder for red dyes and from above. Diamond car- Holbein, Lotto and Van Eyck treated wth slaked lime. Oriental for a wedding pres- other colors for their gar- touches of reds, and rugs in them. McMullan, a husky six-foot ent?" he asked. "She gets a den rugs come from the gar- greens, each figure blues, outlined Rug experts call him a Scots-Irishman, also learned chair, tables, mirrors maybe den and fruit trees.

with darker lines, add to the "Hajji Baba." It is a natural to respect his old 'hopscotch' and for a drab rug McMullan is what one might richess. The border mean- name for the Islamic translarugs. to them. To do it call a "dollar rug man" since ders in a forked like tion of "Pilgrim Father." settles, "I found that a rug is a the right way she should buy that is all the commercial the Meander river pattern, Greece He is a pioneer in discovergarden. It's not nature, but a the rug first, then plan the value they have to him.

which gave "meander" its ing that rugs are indoor gargarden created by space and room around it." Like President Roosevelt's meaning. dens for all seasons not climate. The flowers are styl- McMullan who has launch- "dollar a year advisors" he McMullan said his hardest hopscotch. Workers Cheer Retina Foundation's Rise grated research. The new type of approach uses multidisciplinary functional units all focusing on one goal, research.

"The hospitals must put the care of patients first, the great medical schools must put teaching first," Dr. Balazs explained, his long fine surgeon's hands making parellel paths. "Their research can only run like a road beside these humane necessities yet with a constant communication established, science can share the ability to create and produce new knowledge." At the Institute, he made it clear, at least half of the trustees are scientists participating in the top level research. His quick smile flashed at his absorbed listeners. "Nor can the scientist be led to believe that his is an isolated level, and that his community of society exists only to give dollars.

He must understand fund-raising as well as his science, and use his potential, that which can do best, to justify the funds he holds as a responsibility to the community. This is a 'blue-sky Asked about the Institute's farm where genetic studies are being made not only in the field of blindness to which certain dogs are highly sus- By MARJORIE SHERMAN Globe Society Editor In between showing visiting scientists the laboratory process they came half across the world to see, and getting ready to leave today for Europe for an important research session, The Retina patient, vital Dr. Endre Balazs launched rapidly and talked lucidly with members of the Foundation's Women's Committee and their guests. Within sight of the versatile contemporary building planned by Dr. Charles Schepens, Dr.

Balazs and other members of the renowned staff of the Four.dation, was Chambers where Dr. Schepens brought Endre Balazs from Stockholm in 1951. In a dismal old house, "minus the two scientist-surgeons and those as dedicated as they labored ceaselessly against all odds, to save sight. To the Retina Foundation came not only patients from many countries, but doctors too, to contribute their knowledge and learn new skills in return. With expansion and new laboratories came the decision to form the Institute of Biological and Medical Sciences, creating multi-scientific teams to work on inte- ceptible have helped veterinarians reach a high percentage of cure for he also described studies in the joints of cattle and horses whose aging resembles man's, and even the tendency of goat to "freeze" momenmuscles, sudden noises.

"Thus all facilities, all sciences are fusing into greater knowledge through research." Sharing the highly concentrated focus of the Institute with her husband, who is general funds man, Mrs. Albert Sylvester is really "on loan" from the Ladies Committee of Children's Hospital; but the loan will extend into 1967 when she and her "Foresight" members will present a first in Boston, the Ukrainian Dance Company, one of the most spectacular in all Europe. Mrs. William Morton, who was also dividing her time THE GLASS OF FASHION is held by Christine Koelsch, right, as Mary Beth O'Hara, center, and Peter Finnegan, left, prepare for the Situate Harbor Yacht Club's "Through the Looking Glass" fashion show. (Globe Photo by Charles Dixon) Can Patient Communicate? CHATTERS Has anyone helpful idea for some form Cf communication from a patient who has lost the ability to speak through illness? He cannot move his hands or fingers due to spinal sclersosis.

Lip reading is not effective. STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS had more variety in rugs than the ordered dynasties of people from Egypt to Central Asia, Joseph V. McMullan explains at his Boston house at 90 Chestnut st. On the floor is a stylized East Persian rug of profiled palms of hand and circles roses. The world's greatest collector of Islamic rugs has a current exhibition of 50 on view at the Museum Today in Society between Cohasset and town yesterday for the luncheon, is also on the committee for the Jan.

12 premiere, as are Mrs. Schepens, Mrs. Herbert Motley, Mrs. Howland Warren, Mrs. Robert Sylvester, Mrs.

Abraham Winer, and many more. A ANNOUNCEMENT is made by Mrs. Charles Stellberger, Canton, of the engagement of her sister, Phyllis Louise MacCalmon, Canton, to Charles T. Derry 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Derry, Hyde Park. An Oct. 15 wedding is planned. Ralph Lowell 'is a board chairman, and serving with him are Howland Warren and other distinguished Bostonians who share the beliefs and purposes of the scientists inside the expanding glass and aluminum building rising in the West End. ENGAGED are Miss Ruth E.

McBride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McBride, Pleasantville, N.J., and Frederick Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Wilson, Dorchester.

Miss McBride is studying at the Detroit Institute of Commerce. of Fine Arts until Sept. 14. (Globe Photo by Frank O'Brien) Beauty Becomes You There are lots of changes in the world of makeup. Things are happening fast.

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12. Mirroring Best and Co's newest Fall fashions, the style show is part of Summer program of the Ladies' Committee of the Club, and will feature smart outfits for the coming season, including those for the younger set. Tea will follow the show, to be held in the dining room of the club. Models. who will walk a runway between the dining room and a huge tent set up on the lawn, will be professionals, but children of members will display fashions for the under-16 group.

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