Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century later is the 16th century calendar from a Book of Hours made in Bruges, and included this week by Manhattan's Morgan Library in its display of choice manuscripts. Made to be used year after year, the Bruges calendar has the days of the week numbered alphabetically, with set Feast Days, such as the Annunciation to Mary in March, indicated at right. The "Golden Numbers" at left form a table of the lunar cycles from which Easter and the movable Feast Days can be determined for any given year. Below are delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life...
...cast for both Trial and Pinafore was essentially the same. Morgan Wheelock was the judge, "and a good judge, too." He has mastered the difficult art of patter singing, and it is a pity he did not take the patter role in Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph was played by Jeffery Lewins; he has a fine manner but lacks the driving acidity of tone the patter songs demand. He was more successful speaking than singing...
...diamonds but in gold that Ernest Oppenheimer got his first big break. Teaming with American Engineer W. L. Honnold, he went to London, explained the gold-mining possibilities of South Africa's East Rand district, persuaded J. P. Morgan & Co. and other firms to invest nearly $5,000,000 in their projected Anglo-American Corp. of South Africa...
Maurice C. Thompson Jr. '60, posing as a vagrant, assaulted Santa, Morgan D. Wheelock Jr. '60 as the latter attended his collection kettle in front of the Coop...
...Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...