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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Submitting a series of proposals for remedying inadequacy in House facilities at a time when House facilities at a time when House rejections are at their annual high point, a self-constituted committee of Freshmen met late last week with Dean Hanford, who indicated that he would conduct a comprehensive survey of the practicability of the measures proposed, it was announced last night...
Jimmy Marshall is the son of the late, great Louis Marshall, Jewish lawyer and philanthropist. He went to the Columbia School of Journalism, wrote a novel, Ordeal by Glory, married Novelist Lenore K. Guinzburg, eventually became a lawyer. A congenital battler for the underdog, he defended Southern Negroes before the U. S. Supreme Court, plunged into many a liberal cause. He also played Republican politics in Manhattan, where his fellow politicians lifted eyebrows at his radicalism...
...among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty hop of 15 ft. 10 in. He was promptly acclaimed the jumpingest frog in Calaveras or any other county...
...Cloisters would never have been built but for the acquisitive energy of the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard (TIME, May 2). In France before the War, Sculptor Barnard kept his eye peeled for fine examples of Gothic stone work. He brought back to the U. S. large sections of the cloisters of four great, abandoned monasteries, installed them with other medievaluables in a gallery next to his studio. In 1925 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought this collection for $600,000, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, added gifts of his own. When he gave Fort Tryon Park to the City...
What restorations such as that of Williamsburg, Va., or The Cloisters (see p. 16), are to John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Museum of Modern Art is to Mrs. Rockefeller. Her gifts of modern art to the museum have been surpassed only by that of her friend, the late Lillie P. Bliss. Her greatest interest is in U. S. art, traditional and contemporary, and in this A. Conger Goodyear is a fellow soul. Ever since he first broached the idea to the Louvre authorities in 1932, dynamic President Goodyear, a lover of Winslow Homer and Charles Burchfield, has yearned to show...