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Just 2,000 years ago come October 15, was born on a farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners...
Forty times he has been chased by cops for taking part in street demonstrations; 20 strikes have had his help. In Boston he became an anarchist; Mexico converted him to Communism. Onetime editorial assistant to Max Eastman of the late great Masses, three years ago he became editor of the...
In San Marino, Calif., fortnight ago, was Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and author ity in Art. In San Marino lives Maecenas Henry Edwards Huntington (TIME, Nov. 8). Sir Joseph was visiting Maecenas Huntington. When he left (for Manhattan, where his chief gallery is located), announcement was gently...
Last week occurred once more a far-heralded London sale, one of those dispersals of private collections of British nobility so frequent since the War, one of those sales through which Sir Joseph Duveen and others have acquired and brought to the U. S. a rather deep skimming of the...
But the second day was the one of thrills. Then it was that some score of master canvases, mainly from the expensive 18th Century so favored by Maecenas Huntington, were sold. And chief among these was Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie," which brought the record auction price to date...