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Eight hours later, more than 2,300 people came to dinner. Their tables overflowed the Palmer House grand ballroom into the foyer, into the halls, almost into the elevators. There was a cake 15 ft. high which Bishop Sheil had to cut standing above it on the balcony. There was a main course of the bishop's beloved corned beef & cabbage, and over & over the band played his favorite tune, MacNamara's Band...
Ticket-sellers used two tables in the foyer of the New Lecture Hall, Wagner stated. Other than the ticket stubs, which are dropped into a box at the Hall entrance, there is no check on the night's proceeds...
...uninitiated in art, the Museum is a somber place. One of them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
...bits of modernity in the Museum, the murals in the foyer, stirred controversy during the thirties because of their unsubtle barbs in the direction of Adolf Hitler. Painted during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi Great Rehearsal, one shows a dwarf in military breeches whipping a group of nude workers. In the other, some soldiers with poison gas and flame throwers face others armed with but swords and shields in what seems an acute prognostication of the Blitzkrieg...
Sumner forgot the instructions he had given to his own ushers--"Don't argue"--and told the man to get out. Just before leaving the foyer the man shouted back, "Do you know who I am --I'm Professors----(a full professor of English). "I don't care who you are, "shouted back the enraged Sumner, "get out and don't come back." The professor did, and didn...