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...shiny, black limousines, Manhattan's top-notch socialites rolled up to a musty midtown mansion, hurried past a pair of guards and through a big stone doorway. Inside, J. Pierpont Morgan was giving a dance for his eldest granddaughter, Junius Spencer Morgan's debutante daughter Louise. For every young friend of Louise, Grandfather Morgan had invited four of his own associates. All over the house prowled detectives to keep out "crashers" and newshawks. In the library Physick, the Morgan Butler, presided proudly over the first big entertainment since Mrs. Morgan died nine years before. At 9:30 Host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Doorway" was the unlucky picture and Charles Sheeler, a modern painter who specializes in photographic effects in his works, was the hapless artist who deserved a much better fate than to become a bone of contention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Befogged When Picture Hung Wrong Brings on Envenomed Strife | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...Doorway" shows two doors opening into a short hallway. The doors have no distinguishing latches and the only feature which might differentiate top from bottom is the beamed ceiling. Even this factor does not seriously affect the picture when it is hung upside down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Befogged When Picture Hung Wrong Brings on Envenomed Strife | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...Doorway" shows two doors opening into a short hallway. The doors have no distinguishing latches and the only feature which might differentiate top from bottom is the beamed ceiling. Even this factor does not seriously affect the picture when it is hung upside down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...unfortunate to continue the idea so many people have today--that Holden Chapel has been restored, and is, on the exterior at least, as it was in 1745. As a matter of fact, the building bears very little resemblance to the Chapel of 1745. In the first place, the doorway to the building, as seen in the Paul Revere engraving of Harvard, was on the West end and extended almost up to the entablature, and was reached by a fight of stone stops, as seen by various existing bills of 1744. The arched windows, shown in many drawings and paintings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holden Chapel | 11/28/1934 | See Source »

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