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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is frequently complained that the Metropolitan owns only one Cezanne and has recently kept it out of sight; naturally this can bring no great woe to Critic Cortissoz. Nor must he feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sterile Modernism | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

One room is a vast hollow of jade, in multi-colors and multitudinous shapes. In another great room are glass cases on glass pedestals. In the cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boyce Thompson Institute | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

General Manager Sheehan lives at Beverly Hills in a house of which he supervised the design and building. It has tapestry-covered walls, a sunken garden, a library ceiling imported from Spain. Three butlers serve dinner guests from gold plates and golden goblets. To summon them, Mr. Sheehan keeps on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox's Fix | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

The Curtiss Tanager, entrant in the Guggenheim Fund Safe Aircraft Competition, passed all its preliminary tests last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. It enters the finals with only one possible rival, a Handley-Page biplane similar in many respects to the Curtiss entry. Both planes have automatic wing slots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Stars beamed down at the hundreds of scientists who milled into Des Moines' Shrine Temple for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. The stars were in the building's domed ceiling, marked there by the resident host of the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. Meeting | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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