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Word: hipkiss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never had any of Boston's own sons so delighted her museum. Armed with Mrs. Karolik's introductions to some of the oldest families, the museum's Decorative Arts Curator Edwin James Hipkiss and Collector Karolik knocked on doors from New Hampshire to Georgia, rooted out many an old desk, clock, silver tankard, portrait. While Curator Hipkiss pointed out good and bad features, Collector Karolik asked questions, absorbed information. To old New England and Philadelphia matrons, startled at the idea of selling American antiquity to a man with a Russian accent, they explained that every piece would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boston's Golden Maxim | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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