Word: kuhne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that enough money has been raised the Germanic Museum in connection with the German Department of the University plans to present the first German talking picture here about the middle of March, at the Germanic Museum Building. The announcement was made by C. L. Kuhn, curator of the Museum. In addition to giving students the opportunity of hearing German spoken, it is also supported because it is a phase of modern...
Commenting on this display, C. L. Kuhn, curator of the Museum, stated that in Germany the art of reproducing old works has reached a high degree of perfection. "The only real obstacle the Germans have met in their work is the copying of manuscripts illuminated with gold paint. The Medieval artists used gold leaf burnished by hand, but no modern reproducer has been able to obtain the same effect, although many different methods have been tried. In all other respects I think these are very accurate reproductions...
...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...
...some reason this subject of manuscript illumination is little known in America, "Dr. Kuhn continued. "Personally, I think it is the best means of expression of the German temperament which remains to us today. By studying these illuminated manuscripts it is possible to trace the history of the German people throughout the Middle Ages. During the 10th and 11th centuries no work comparable to the German can be found in either France or Italy...
...Though Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have been its bankers, Pennsylvania has never been a banker's road. It is a Pennsylvania institution, socially, financially, politically. President Atterbury runs the road. He has been a Pennsy man since he left college in 1886. Son of a lawyer who quit a Detroit practice to become a Presbyterian preacher and who wanted his son to enter the ministry. President Atterbury started in the Pennsylvania's great Altoona shops. In 1903 President Cassatt jumped him to general manager of the eastern region, a key post. Thereafter his rise, like all railroadmen...