Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris French art critics, who are inclined to sniff at American taste, were wide-eyed and rams last week over the collection of an American-and an American banker, at that. Hit of the Paris season is the Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well...
...dollars you want," he said, "I've got them." Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every few hours-while the Russian exhibit went begging. See FOREIGN NEWS, Nylon Wonderland...
...speakers were just two of the 50,000 Poles who each day last week filed in from all over the nation to look in wonder at the U.S. exhibit in Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair...
Under the Dome. It was in the wake of the same fair last year that the riots broke out which started Poland on its path of quasi-independence from Moscow. Present for the first time at Poznan, the U.S. exhibit was by all odds the hit of the show, and dominated the entire fa11" grounds. Except for the model house and some outdoor turntables on which stood a gleaming selection of U.S. cars (with prices posted), it was housed beneath the gossamer translucence of one of Designer Buckminster Fuller's nylon-covered geodesic domes, a silvery half-grapefruit rising...
...exhibit the Poles swarmed in at 9 every morning, often staying with sandwiches to "have lunch in America," as they put it. Towards the end of the week, when the numbers rose to an average of 20,000 every hour, the Americans were forced to close the mezzanine for fear it might collapse...