Word: friedsam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced that within a few years one out of twenty of the inhabitants of the U. S. will be mentally incompetent or emotionally unstable. To cope with that dreary future all sorts of organizations exist such as National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Special Schools Association (to train "retarded" children). Friedsam Foundation (to study children especially), American Neurological Association (which meets in Montreal next week), American Psychiatric Association...
...show into the news columns. Among the canvases in Detroit was a small self-portrait of Frans Hals, baggy-eyed, slightly disheveled (see cut). It had just been sold by Manhattan's E. & A. Silberman Galleries to Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis. Helsingfors, Haarlem, and the Friedsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum have other versions of the same picture. The last has always been considered the original. Not so, cried Dr. Valentiner last week. The Klaus canvas, he maintained, was the only genuine...
...small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., he built a big three-story cloister which he named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed in the cloister by white-robed Ephrata nuns. As the years passed the community...
After midnight, when the fourth floor guard had passed the collection of the late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...
...Peter Paul Rubens. Most embarrassing loss was a "Judith" by Lucas Cranach, lent to the Museum by Sculptor Carl Milles. The other seven were a Rogier van der Weyden, a Sir Thomas Lawrence, a Romney. Van Dyck, Jean Fouquet. Francois Clouet and Bernardino Luini. Eight were from the Friedsam collection. The Van Dyck was 2 ft. by 1 1/2 ft. The rest were all about half as large, easy to handle. Total value: about...