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THE WASHINGTON POST
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1972   D3

Discussions at the Corcoran

By Paul Richard

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art met again yesterday to discuss the implications of the bizarre public fistfight between Vincent Melzac, the Corcoran's chief executive, and Gene Baro, the gallery's director, that shocked an opening night audience at the gallery last weekend.
  
It was their second meeting since the Friday night altercation that left Baro, in his own words, "cascading with blood."
  
Trustee Corcoran Thom, who noted that board chairman George E. Hamilton Jr. is traveling in Europe and that the Corcoran's bylaws require three days advance notice before "official" board meetings are convened, described the trustees' Sunday and Tuesday conferences as "informal and unofficial."
  
"Nothing was determined," Thom told a reporter. "As soon as we decide something we'll let you fellows know."
  
Some members of the Corcoran's board of governors met Sunday with the trustees. While declining to describe the tenor of the meeting, board member Burke Wilkinson acknowledged that the altercation had been discussed and said "we'd obviously be remiss if we didn't look into it."
  
Melzac was working at the gallery yesterday. Baro, who attended a Sunday opening at the Corcoran (at which Melzac was not present), has been consulting a physician and has not been at the office since.
  
The two men have not spoken with one another since the Friday incident.