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...children," and he once reported that "I look at my pictures every night before I go to bed." He was generous to Washington's National Gallery of Art, of which he became president in 1955, but he would watch carefully to see how a painting that he had lent was hung before he would make it a permanent gift. As the years advanced, one of the big questions for all major U.S. museums was: Where would the Chester Dale Collection finally...
...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...
...officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing the foreign press. Instead of taking note of the public out-cry against the jailing of Rudolf Augstein, Bonn has lent its tacit support to Herr Strauss' highly successful Christian Social Union campaign strategy in the Bavarian Landelection--calling those asking for his resignation Communists...
...hated by many Southerners, who took their revenge in what became known as Eleanor stories. She urged TVA-like projects for the Missouri and Mississippi River valleys. She sought wages-and-hours legislation for farm hands and household servants, and in days when such things seemed to matter less, lent her prestigious name, sometimes indiscriminately, to many causes...
...Roosevelt even lent her stature to a series of television commercials which gave her an opportunity to plead for food for the world's hungry peoples...