Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
...troublesome to St. James' as to most small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee of two to draft a suitable note of thanks...
...Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college, but its 32 members are all intelligent, imaginative schools urgently devoted to racial uplift and interracial understanding...
...picture might have been better if a priest known as Big Mike (Alan Hale) were not required to argue the validity of its title so often with the doubting colonel (Dennis Morgan), who has faith only in himself. Between these well-meant but not very convincing religious dialogues, however, there is a good deal of swift and explosive air combat, about as exciting as such material can hope to be, after it has been filmed so well and so often. A California-trained, English-speaking Japanese ace named Tokyo Joe (Richard Loo) adds a novel note of hatred by gritting...
After allowing one day for recovery from that ordeal, up came the commissioning ceremony: brief (25 minutes) but effective (134 new, gold-gilt Ensigns). Most of the boys took practical advantage of the situation immediately. J. Morgan Dester appeared at the next muster in full regalia with all his stripes and complete allowance of brass fully displayed. Felix Locke reputedly spent the afternoon on the docks, looking for a little salt spray on his uniform no doubt, while others, following Lt. Beckham's subtle advice, got their saltiness directly from Cowie Hall. "Pop" Kellogg was walking down the street with...