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World War II stopped projected borrowings from abroad. But Dr. Swarzenski effectively panhandled U. S. museums, dealers and collectors, even persuaded such a confirmed non-lender as J. P. Morgan to ship some treasures temporarily to Boston...
Since then, said Lawyer Cohen, Viggo Bird has made $304,000, paid $190,000 of it to the unnamed lender. This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
...gallows seem like a successfully pleaded traffic case. However, Miss Thompson was able, with $10.000 (213.000 francs) in hand, to hire the Clarence Darrow of the Paris bar, the great Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, a fiery Paris-born Corsican who in the Herriot Cabinet of 1926 was Lender Secretary on Technical Instruction...
...animal, but the two blood streams were thoroughly mixed until the urea of the nephrectomized (kidney-less) dog was distributed fairly evenly throughout the blood of both animals. The normal dog rapidly excreted the urea of the nephrectomized dog. Ten experiments were reported. In practically all cases the kidney-lender made a rapid recovery. In many cases the nephrectomized dog was in good condition at the conclusion of the experiment...
When the Pennsylvania Museum of Art had its big Daumier show last autumn (TIME, Nov. 8), 14 of the largest and most valuable oils exhibited were listed as the property of "An Anonymous Lender." Few Philadelphians knew that after the exhibitions these paintings went right back into the Museum's storage rooms as part of a $1,000,000 collection of paintings shipped from Paris last year to be held there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania...