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...Clarksdale, Miss, and elsewhere in the Mississippi Delta, however, WPA projects were suspended as police lent a hand in the familiar practice of benevolently shanghaiing the jobless to the cotton fields in picking time. Those who refused to go were arrested for vagrancy...
...eighty, second president of the United State and Harvard 1775. This is one of the more important pictures that may be seen along with the Copleys of John Adams '87 and of that irrepressible discontent Sam Adams 1740, as well as the one of John Hancock lent by the City of Boston. Hancock was treasurer of the College from 1773-1779 while being engaged in the many patriotic duties for which he is better known. Other pictures are of Cotton and Increase Mather, of Sir Henry Vane, of Governor John Endecott, and of Jeremiah Dummer, Jr. The only modern note...
Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...
...being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when Mr. Annenberg goes to "Ranch A" (for Annenberg) in Wyoming he prefers to rest in comparative solitude. Sometimes when guests appear he goes away, leaves them in possession. Last June Republican Mr. Annenberg lent his ranch in absentia to South Dakota's Democratic Governor Tom Berry who gratefully used it to see that visiting New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell had a good time...
...celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Harvard University, potent graduates lent to Robinson Hall last week the most important collection of antiques New Englanders have seen for a generation. Also last week the Harvard Forest joined the festivities with an exhibition that a group of trained craftsmen has been preparing for the past five years. Sixteen illuminated models went on view near the famed glass flowers in the University Museum. Portrayed in miniature and exact detail were the history and proper care of a New England forest...