Word: 53rd
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Since its founding eight years ago, the Museum of Modern Art has had three homes. First was seven rooms in the Heckscher Building. Next was a converted private house on West 53rd Street, then two weeks ago it moved to temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center. The new building will occupy the site of the West 53rd Street place and use part of the adjacent Rockefeller sites in the rear for a garden. Designed by Architects Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone, the new museum will be a block of concrete, white marble, dark stone, glass brick and plate glass...
...53rd birthday of Benito Mussolini fell last week in the astrological sign of Leo the lion. No Italian newspaper mentioned the fact because Fascism is a youth movement, the title of the Fascist anthem is "Youth" (Giovanezza), and Mussolini must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
...Civil Service celebrated the 53rd anniversary of its foundation. In honor...
Since 1932 Mrs. Rockefeller's chief interest has been within rifle shot of the same window. The Museum of Modern Art is housed in a handsome limestone house in West 53rd Street with a back door facing the Rockefeller backyard...
...collection of Cezannes equaled only by those in Moscow and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the finest group of Seurat drawings in the U. S. and 59 other important works. In 1932 the Museum moved from the Heckscher Building around to its present quarters on West 53rd Street...