An art and director who received his training at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, JAMES S. PLAUT resumed his duties as Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, after four years’ service in the Navy. As Director of the Art Looting Investigation Unit, OSS, he was responsible for uncovering the works of art collected by Rosenberg, Göring, and Hitler and hidden in Germany.

Author, editor, and historian, LOUIS B. WRIGHThas been director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington since 1948. Previous to that time, he spent seventeen years at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, first as visiting scholar and then as research professor. From his experience he has drawn a portrait of the founders of these two great cultural institutions.