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...sort of miser, Stephen Girard spent millions bolstering the U.S. Government during the War of 1812. He lent President Monroe $40,000 to pay off his personal debts, helped Joseph Bonaparte set up a court in exile, dribbled away thousands to anyone with a hard-luck story. When he died in 1831, the childless old man left $6,000,000 to found a school for fatherless boys...
...most ambitious paintings in the new show was The Little Concert, a huge (9 by 12 ft.) monochrome which he had delivered still wet to the galleries. The London Times thought that it was "full of recklessly mingled details." In the portraits, every detail counted. The elaborate flowered background lent a heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush...
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Nevertheless, to make sure he had never been on the Nazi side, he was quizzed for seven days in the Army screening center in Bad Orb. Then the A.M.G. rounded up ten editorial assistants for him, lent them newsprint, and put them to work in the big red brick building that once housed the famed Ullstein publishing house...
...Student Council set a record for itself last night, when it lent its preliminary approval to three new College political organizations within the space of an hour...