Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo's "Landscape with Crucifix"; Biagio's "Landscape in Vence." His purchases were allowed to remain in the exhibition instead of being...
...remote than beer, California vintners were also stirred with new hope. In that State before Prohibition were 770 wineries, of which 166 are still in operation under Federal license. Under bond are some 18,000,000 gal. of wine waiting for legal floodgates to open. The first mouquin wine catalog since 1918 was issued last week in Manhattan. The firm announced that it would have a ship loaded with a million dollars worth of wine ready to sail into New York and unload an hour after sales became legal...
...Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog, pack the nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring collection as a memorial to their husband & father, the late Harry Payne Whitney.* It will be housed in the new Whitney...
...Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...