Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of...
Harvard University last week owned up to art faking. Director Edward W. Forbes of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum admitted that ostensibly bronze German statues stored in Harvard's Germanic Museum are really plaster of Paris, painted.
Although all persons who had leaned treasures to the Museum were informed that the Museum could not assume total responsibility for safeguarding them in case of air attack, the owners preferred to have their leans left in the Museum's care, Forbes states. However, many paintings, drawings, prints, and other...
In addition to taking precautions for possible air raids, Forbes revealed that the duplication of many valuable, but inflammable X-ray shadowgraphs was continuing, and that Fogg Art Museum had received and placed on exhibition many of the lantern slides, books, and photographs which had been removed from the Germanic...
"Though the use of the Library by students has decreased, the work with the various collections and for the Department continues at practically the same level," Forbes reported.