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Price Fight. When the Government built the Nicaro plant in 1942, it badly needed ore to feed it. Freeport Sulphur Co. owned a rich ore body just four to eight miles away, and the Government lent $1,100,000 to Freeport to develop the ore. The Government promised to buy at least one-third of Nicaro's ore needs from Freeport through 1968, now gets all of Nicaro's ore from Freeport, pays a royalty of $1.73 per ton, and also pays the cost of extracting the ore. The Bureau of Mines contends that the Government, which operates...
...plane to New York, and four hours later he was standing before La Grande Jatte in the adjacent Whitney Museum. With an audible sigh of relief, he announced: "It's in excellent condition. No damage at all." It was the first time the Chicago Institute had lent the Seurat masterpiece, and it will be the last: it was given to the museum with the provision that it would be lent only once...
...museum's ground floor was a special on-loan show of 63 paintings by the late Cubist Painter Juan Gris. In the gallery above the fire hung more than 150 works by famed 19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove of modern masterpieces in the world...
...have improved Harvard-Radcliffe relations, because by November, 1936, members of Pierian were willing to assist the young Radcliffe Orchestra in some of its bigger concerts. But the Radcliffe Orchestra did not suffer from the lack of Pierian assistance in its separate concerts. "The spirit of the young players lent to their music a vitality not always found among professionals"--Boston Globe...
Some U.S. physicians have already disagreed with Torrilhon's diagnoses, but he has cited enough evidence to make his case fascinatingly arguable (and to nail his M.D. from the University of Paris). In The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Torrilhon spies out a small, red-coated figure lacking both feet and half an arm, lying on its back. His diagnosis: amputations following "a typical case of Buerger's disease, i.e., gangrene caused by thromboangiitis obliterans" (an inflammatory disease affecting blood vessels). In the same picture another male figure drags wasted legs behind him as he creeps along...