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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's National Gallery opened a long-awaited loan show this week: 40 paintings from the collection of Oil Tycoon Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. Publicity-hating Gulbenkian, one of the richest men in the world (TIME, June 16, 1947 et seq.), was not on hand for the festivities; at 84, the Near East genius spends most of his time in his adopted Lisbon...
University faculties throughout the U.S. have been debating this question ever since the regents of the University of California issued their famous "sign or resign" ultimatum to the California faculty last winter (TIME, March 6 et seq.). This week, in a book review* in the New York Sunday Times, a cool and collected sifting of the question came from New York University's Sidney Hook, eminent philosopher and political liberal...
...most successful literary treasure hunts of the past 25 years has been the pursuit of the scattered manuscripts and correspondence of Sam Johnson's gossipy biographer, James Boswell (TIME, March 9, 1936, et...
...packed its exhibition jury with Communists, found room for the works of 420 painters and sculptors, 80% of whom employ the flatly realistic picture-book style that Stalin knows and loves. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, which had all passed up Venice's big "Biennale" exhibition (TIME, June 26 et seq.), gladly contributed to this...
...reduced purchases of U.S. goods; 3) bigger exports to the U.S., due in part to currency devaluations that were made last year (TIME, Sept. 26, 1949 et seq.). Some nations were using part of the surplus dollars they were earning to buy gold from the U.S., thus shore up confidence in their currencies...