Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Museum moved from its five rooms to five floors of a greystone mansion on 53rd Street, in view of the back windows of the Rockefeller home. Membership ($10 a year) shot up by leaps & bounds. The board of trustees became a galaxy of the enlightened rich. Greatest of many gifts were the Bliss collection of modern French paintings, a bequest for which the Museum raised an endowment of more than $600,000 in 1934, and Mrs. Rockefeller's collection in 1935. The Museum acquired an energetic executive director, Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr., an able assistant curator...
Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...
Last week, with more features, more color, more competitors than ever before, the National Horse Show Association opened its 53rd show. In spite of decolletage, diamonds and decorative elegance on view in the boxes, the most colorful costumes were in the ring. This year the Horse Show had brought to Manhattan its most successful feature to date, 40 members of Canada's crack cavalry unit, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, senior regiment of Canada's Army...
...Fifth Avenue apartment of the Bedaux is at present let to Actress Gertrude Lawrence. It still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village...
Posted on his 53rd birthday, that terse notice gave Harold Stirling Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last...