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Toward the mythical championship of U.S. college football, Minnesota still leads the nationwide march this week. The goal ahead is a new team trophy whose donor is Minnesota's own M Club (lettermen...
...When Morse suggested to a faculty committee planning new biological laboratories that they could save $30,000 by installing steel instead of wood cabinets, a committeeman protested: "Why, Mr. Morse, should we save $30,000 when it will only have to be given back to the donor...
...haunted house Universal has been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...
...Donor Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
With last week's purchase of the bulky Zorach, plus six other American sculptures, adding up to a total of 17 pieces, Donor Norton felt he had done his bit for the museum's sculpture. He still cocks a collector's eye at new pictures: a good new American can even lure him out of his summer fastness at Chautauqua, N.Y., where he has sailed his boats and presided over the Board of Trustees since...