The society's president, President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Eeserve University, was on hand, eruditely genial.
In between, he roves entertainingly, and often eruditely, through such recondite subjects as octopus-ink paintings, spumoni fudge and specialty cement.
In it were pontifical utterances of Bernhard Berenson, famed European art critic who hovers eruditely in the background of most Duveen dealings.