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...largest exhibition of the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) ever held in the U. S. ended its Manhattan showing last week, packed up for a road show that will include Philadelphia. Boston, Cleveland and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 28). Final figures disclosed that it was the most popular exhibit that the Museum of Modern Art has had in all its six years. Before the doors closed last week. 123,339 people had gaped at van Gogh's brilliant, swirling canvases...
...shotgun was ever big enough to make Dictator Gomez marry and before his death last week he had produced at least So bastards. One of them, Gonzalo, got himself shot last week attempting to stage a deathbed marriage for his mother. From graft alone he assembled the second largest private fortune in South America, estimated at over...
...Largest: Bolivian "Tin-King" Simon Palino...
Better publicity for the steel industry last week was the announcement of Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. that it planned a $35,000,000 expansion and improvement program. Fourth largest unit in the industry and the biggest family-owned .steel company in the U. S., Jones & Laughlin will spend $25,000,000 for a strip & sheet mill, enter that market for the first time. Though about $5,000,000 of a proposed $40,000,000 bond issue will be used for refunding, the balance represents one of the biggest bids for new money since the capital market started...
Harvard with 7848 men is the eleventh largest university in the United States, according to a survey recently conducted by Raymond Walters, president of the University of Cincinnati. On the basis of full-time students, the University of California with 20, 388 leads the field. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth are not mentioned in the list of the 25 largest institutions...