Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters of Gold. This week, on its 25th anniversary as a public institution, the Morgan Library, housed in a Renaissance-style mansion on Manhattan's East 36th Street, paid tribute to its first director. The staff had placed on exhibition some 256 items-the best of the treasures that Belle had bought before her retirement last December. There were the famous incunabula (the library has perhaps the best collection of these pre-16th Century books in the U.S.) and a 9th Century manuscript of the Four Gospels, written in letters of gold. The exhibition spanned centuries: notes Galileo jotted...
...library, the aging Morgan spent more & more of his time, too. He never read the books that surrounded him, but he liked to sit there and play solitaire by the hour. His conversations with Belle were seldom long ("You think we should have that book? Buy it!"). But he liked to have her read the Bible aloud to him, or sit with him when he was troubled about something. One such time, Belle remembers, she caught him in a mistake in solitaire. "Do you accuse me of cheating?" he thundered. "Well, then . . . I'll begin again." On that occasion...
When the great Morgan died in 1913, he left his library to his son, and Belle stayed on as its head. Now, though retired and slowed by illness, Belle still goes to the library almost every day, "just to finish things up." There is still much to do-old friends to see and letters to read and send. Besides, Belle is also working on a book, a history of her two favorite collectors-the J. P. Morgans, father...
...Said That? (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Guest stars: Henry Morgan, H. V. Kaltenborn, Elsa Maxwell...
...Fallen Idol. A British-made suspense film which is also a brilliant study of child behavior, with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...