Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident in even his most casual work...
...benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced on the Dreyfus bronzes, had them expertly catalogued in three massive volumes. As Duveen had anticipated, the impressive...
These are the questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...
...Paris Stanton Macdonald-Wright soon floated into the heady atmosphere of the postimpressionists. Teaming up with a fellow American, Morgan Russell, he worked out basic principles of an abstract style, based on scientific color theories, which he called "Synchromy." The results' first shown in 1913, were curving, intersecting volumes of light, which today take their place on the artistic map, alongside the "Orphism" of French Painter Robert Delaunay and Italian futurist studies of forms in motion, as feeder streams into the main current of 20th century...
...Henry Samuel Beers, 57, moved from vice president to president of Hartford's Aetna Life affiliated Companies (second largest full-line insurance group after Travelers). He replaces Morgan B. Brainard, who becomes chairman. A Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College (Hartford), Beers was headed for law when he was persuaded to take an actuarial exam, went to work for New York's Home Life. Aetna hired him in 1923, made him vice president in 1936 shortly after he headed the commission that wrote Connecticut's unemployment-insurance laws...