Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1963, Frederick B. Adams Jr., 54, director of Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library, chanced to find a manuscript from Europe with a title referring to Catherine. It was unmistakably by the same hand as the Guennol version. The library purchased it, and by matching sentence breaks, even stains on the pages, proved conclusively that the two were once one, an uncommonly long Book of Hours illumined with 157 dazzling miniatures. Joined for an exhibit at the Morgan, the reunited book was clearly the finest Dutch manuscript in existence (see color pages). Now the halves are separate again...
...fortnight ago, the Administration used its well-tested jawbone tactics on top Manhattan bankers, who usually set the pattern in the national loan market. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon telephoned his old friends and, according to Wall Street insiders, Johnson himself got on the horn to some bank chiefs, notably Morgan Guaranty's Henry Clay Alexander. The Administration satisfied itself that the New York bankers would make no immediate increases, partly because their supply of money was well ahead of the loan demand from cash-heavy U.S. corporations. To keep them in that mood, the Federal Reserve last week pumped...
...PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. Thirty-five Rembrandt etchings include nearly all of the landscapes he did in the medium, and eight self-portraits, ranging from a view of the uncombed but aspiring artist at 24 to the profound self-analysis that marked his later views of himself (through Jan. 16). The library also has a fine selection of old master drawings, highlighted by a rare Leonardo...
...late one night last week, some stupid crooks got into Morgan Hall and went to work. Next morning, the caretaker discovered the results. Gone were 22 gems, which amounted to one of the biggest hauls in history...
Most notable was the famed Star of India Sapphire, weighing 563.35 carats, the world's biggest stone of its kind (about the size of a golf ball), donated to the museum by old J. Pierpont Morgan himself. Also taken was the DeLong Star Ruby, 100.32 carats, the world's most perfect star ruby, and J. P. Morgan's Midnight Sapphire, weighing 116.75 carats. Museum officials put the value of the 22 stones at more than $300,000, but the fact was that the three big pieces alone were priceless...