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...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...
That Man from Rio. Sssh. Out of a shadow a shadow glides, a sinister shape that stands up like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum...
...first, Ford officials tried to per suade the Free Press not to run the pictures. When that failed, they began to look for the culprit. Since the Mus tang's license plate was visible in one of the photos, the investigation did not take long. The Mustang's driver was none other than the nephew of Ford Chairman Henry Ford II, Walter Buhl ("Buhlie") Ford III, at 20 already something of a legendary cut up around Grosse Pointe, the baronial suburb east of Detroit...
...package, than the collection of design and fine art which has been maintained for six decades by the Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Some consider it equaled elsewhere in the world only by London's Victoria and Albert and Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Now this museum is closed to the public-and suddenly it is the center of a controversy that is stirring the art world far beyond the galleries of Manhattan...
...collected by his pupil and onetime beloved, Painter Gabriele Münter), and the collection of Nina Kandinsky, the artist's widow, who lives in France. But Director Thomas Messer pulled off an even more impressive coup of roundupmanship: with the help of Mme. Kandinsky and Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne, he engineered delicate negotiations with Moscow, bringing seven paintings in the show from Russia, on loan from Moscow's Municipal Museum of Modern Western Art, the Russian Museum in Leningrad, and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, all dating from...