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Most collectors who spend a lifetime accumulating works of art prefer to see them set like jewels in the crown of a single, favored museum. Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress, 89-year-old dime-store tycoon, is one big collector who would rather spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached...
Plowing the Ground. Through Houston's advance guard sometimes argues with Chillman's conservative taste, no one argues with his results. The museum collections have grown to a solid $3,500,000 worth of treasures. Manhattan's Samuel Kress Foundation will soon add another 33 old masters. And work is going ahead on a new wing to the white limestone building that will provide 3,000 sq. ft. more of exhibition space when it is finished this fall. Best of all, says Chillman, Texans are using the museum; the 1952 attendance was more than...
Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which is in the process of giving half the dime store magnate's collection of art treasures to some 20 U.S. cities (the National Gallery got the other half), unveiled two gifts to the Northwest...
...many clever people, are consciously patriotic . . . If you go to those much maligned cocktail parties, a typical day might include four between 6 and 8 p.m. They are not exactly mischief and fun, but good conversation and partisan information on the topic of the day . . . the excellence of the Kress collection, or the intellectual brilliance of the Secretary of State. As you go from an important embassy to a well-known columnist's, to the Sulgrave Club and a chic Georgetown house, any Washingtonian will know in advance which Supreme Court, Cabinet and Senate couples might be encountered. Cave...
Aware of their ticklish position deep in Communist territory, students of the Free University sometimes wonder if their alma mater will be permitted to grow old enough for traditions of its own. Their worry is understandable, but their rector, Hans Freiherr von Kress, a professor of medicine, is letting it interfere with none of his plans. With their new finances, he and his staff are counting on a new building to include lecture halls, a desperately needed central library, and a student dining room. They are going to organize the first adult education program ever attempted in Germany...