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...into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church, and a donkey cart (lent by General George C. Marshall, who got it as a present from grateful Sicilians), adorned with paintings of Truman and Marshall...
Miracle In the Woods. Next day L woman in Seattle sent in a dollar. "Have faith," she wrote. Other dollars followed ($9,474 to date), and Clarence Dirks set to work to build Camano Chapel, as he called it. Nearby farmers, carpenters, plumbers, even visitors from the city lent a hand. A lumber company gave cedar logs, which were hauled out of the forest, free, by a trucker, sized and split by two roofers in return for the butts, which the chapel could not use. Seattle hotel and restaurant men gave enough money for a $2,500 organ. One rainy...
...good cross section of private collectors' accomplishments-and tastes-is now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The 87 paintings and sculptures in the show were lent by five collectors...
Quacks & Cheats. Although Barnes boasted the finest private collection of modern art in the world, few can boast of having seen it. In 1921, Barnes extended his fight for modern art into a war against all art fanciers and cognoscenti. That year, he lent 25 paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Conservative Philadelphians scorned his moderns as "quack practitioners" and "cheats."Quick-tempered Alfred Barnes took his paintings back from the academy, locked up his collection in a $500,000 limestone museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time...
...also got permission to investigate Otis' books. It wants to find out whether Cyrus Eaton and William R. Daley, Otis' biggest stockholders, have reduced Otis' assets by transferring into their personal accounts securities valued at $3,229,639 which they had lent the company. Otis announced that it would close down its brokerage business this week. Nevertheless, SEC went right ahead with proceedings to ban Otis from the brokerage business...