Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The museum officials of Kansas City were frankly baffled by the young man with the booming laugh. But they had to admit that he did seem to have a plan. The city had just become heir to a 74-room mansion, and 26-year-old John Ripley Forbes had driven...
In the 14 years since then, John Ripley Forbes has repeated that performance so many times that he has become the Johnny Appleseed of the museum world. He has badgered millionaires, begged and borrowed exhibits, set up children's museums from Portland. Ore. to Jacksonville. Fla. Last week, as...
Lectures on Leave. The son of an Episcopal minister, Forbes started his first museum in his own attic in Stamford, Conn., often trotted over to ask the advice of his famed neighbor, Naturalist William T. Hornaday. He studied zoology and ornithology at the State University of Iowa and Bowdoin College...
Over the years, Forbes's National Foundation for Junior Museums. Inc. (formerly the William T. Hornaday Memorial Foundation) has left its mark on scores of communities. In 1943, Forbes blew into Nashville, helped raise $15,000 to open a junior museum in an old stone house, started it off...
In the days before Mulvey, the Crimson coach developed such National and intercollegiate champions at the college as Charley Hutter and Forbes Norris. Jr., both members of the American Olympic swimming teams.