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...Hans von Kress, new president of the Free University of Berlin, will visit the University today to confer with Reginald H. Phelps '30, director of University extension, on adult general education. Tomorrow Kress will appear at the Medical School...
Washington's National Gallery celebrated its tenth anniversary last week with a stunning exhibition of the latest art works acquired by the Croesus-rich Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In the last five years, the foundation, financed by dime-store profits, has bought 116 paintings, 18 sculptures and more than 1,300 miniature bronzes. A few of them will eventually be parceled out to museums as far away as Honolulu, but most will become part of the National Gallery's permanent collection...
...gifts, added to the magnificent earlier ones of Andrew Mellon, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Lessing Rosenwald and the Kress Foundation, make the National Gallery a giant...
...seen the university double in size, guided it through its centenary, launched a drive intended to bring the $2,000,000 endowment to $10,000,000 and add nine handsome new buildings to the campus. Last March, however, he resigned his post to head the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, and the trustees had been combing a list of men to succeed...
...jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself. He was identified as Lyman Finnell, ex-convict and parole violator. Several blocks away another of the thugs was run to ground in a taxi. He was one Joseph Kress, a young man with an old record. Desperado No. 3 escaped...