Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the day, efforts were made to show the Russians as much of Cambridge and Boston as possible, and this included the obligatory visits to the John Hancock Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, Widener Library and the Yard, etc. In addition, smaller groups paid visits to hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory...
...Boston daily newspapers were forced to shut down last night for the second time in 27 months, after the International Typographical Union ordered a strike against the newspapers...
...facilities will stand at the corner of Huntington Ave. and Shattuck St. in Boston. They will replace two remodeled hospital buildings and "rented and borrowed" space now adjacent to the construction site...
This showing of sixty-five works from the Guggenheim Museum in New York has been presented to Bostonians not only to honor the Guggenheim on the opening of its new, Frank Lloyd Wright building, but also to remind local art-goers of the serious deficiency to modern art in Boston public collections. Perry T. Rathbone, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, hopes that this exhibit will stimulate the formation of a permanent collection of modern art in his museum so that such loan exhibitions will no longer be needed to display representative works of the twentieth country...
...borrowing from the Guggenheim when its best acquisitions have naturally been used for its grand opening was ill-advised. This show is for the most part composed, unfortunately, of minor works and it is hard to see how such a big, but unsatisfying display will convince Boston's millionaires that modern art is worth purchasing for local museums...