Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Financier Stephen C. Clark (who has spent a raft of his Singer sewing machine money on art) bought all 20, presented them to the New York State Historical Association. In a special "Hall of Life Masks" at the Association's museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., they will go on display next June, as the first event in Cooperstown's sesquicentennial celebration of its most famed native son, James Fenimore Cooper-one contemporary whose bust Browere never got round to making...
Last week in Manhattan hog-wild Tennessee Eastman gave a coming-out party for its latest creation: Tenite II-a slightly refined Tenite I extruded in long, thin, narrow strips and strings. On display were Tennessee Eastman's debutantes: plastic chairs, tables, love seats, lazy boys of Tenite II for use in sun rooms, on verandas and lawns. Woven in strips or strings on rattan frames, the plastic furniture is (Eastman boast) impervious to sun, rain, fading. It is made by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. out of strips and strings extruded by Detroit Macoid Corp. from Tennessee Eastman...
...engraving from a sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...
...limousines and trailers, by airline and boat and railway (at lowest fares ever), they spread through all the long reach from Jacksonville on the north to Key West in the south (see map). They went to fish for sail, marlin, tarpon on both coasts; to peer at fish on display at Marineland and Silver Springs; to watch their favorite ballplayers at Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota; to hear the Bok Carillon at Lake Wales; to see Seminoles and alligators and flamingos and orange trees; to have...
...Wellesley Water Ballet group put on a fancy aquatic display, while the House pajama relay provided the comedy element. There were also several races for sons of Harvard faculty...