Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fossil skeleton of a marine reptile thought to be the largest that ever lived is being prepared for display at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...some 50 separate underground caches, the paintings were seized by the invading Russians in 1945. tossed helter-skelter into open trucks for the trip to Moscow. For the next decade their whereabouts was a well-kept Soviet secret. Not until the present Soviet leaders staged a red-carpet display of their booty last year at Moscow's Pushkin Museum (TIME, Sept. 12), before handing the collection back to the East Germans, did the Western world know how many-if any-of the museum's most important paintings were still in existence...
...response, the astonished Kefauver revealed an aspect of his personality rarely seen by the U.S. public. Angrily, the molasses-voiced Tennesseean called a press conference, accused Adlai of "mudslinging and character assassination ... I am surprised and disappointed." But even in anger, Estes was careful to display Sunday school magnanimity. "I'm not going to engage in personalities," said he. "I will simply turn the other cheek...
...tenors who confine their tenoritis backstage are more numerous than their brothers who become public spectacles. These sometimes blow up on stage, e.g., David Poleri, who three years ago walked off Chicago's Civic Opera House stage just before he was supposed to stab his Carmen; or display such neurotic symptoms as getting too fat, e.g., Mario Lanza; or become overtly adventurous, e.g., Caruso was arrested for making a pass at a woman in the monkey house of the Central Park...
...trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident in even his most casual work...