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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing-Card Faces. Usually designed to be set in lockets and viewed cupped in the hand, the miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest...
...continuing the work of Alexander Agassiz, Clark, who died at the age of 77, is credited with putting the Museum here "among the largest and best organized in the world" because of his additions to the collection of sea stars, brittle stars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers...
...ancient, leaky, 1,814-ton Chesapeake Bay excursion boat, once known as the President Warfield but now grimly called Exodus 1947, last week unsteadily approached the Palestine coast. The Zionist flag flew at her mast, and 4,554 refugees-the largest number that ever tried to run the British blockade at one time-jammed her holds. The refugees knew that the British Navy's destroyers patrolled the coast; but perhaps they hoped that the presence of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) would embarrass the British sufficiently to let the Exodus slip...
...Late. For the coal industry, the plea came too late. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., the country's largest producer of bituminous coal, had already raised its prices an average of 73? a ton. But Chairman George M. Humphrey, who had helped negotiate the wage contract, told Senator Robert A. Taft's Joint Committee on the Economic Report that the rises might prove temporary. He promised to reduce prices by Aug. 15 if costs rose less than 73? a ton, absorb the difference if they rose more. Pittsburgh Consolidation's first-quarter earnings-up some 40% over...
Rain or shine, photographic plates from the largest astronomical collection in the world, illnminated slides, and several books written by local faculty will be on display...