Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
Visiting Abilene's Eisenhower Museum, he spotted Army Nurse Major Florence Judd, who had looked after him following his ileitis operation in 1956. He recalled without being reminded that she had been transferred from Washington to nearby Fort Riley. A boyhood friend, Abe Forney, who had worked with Ike hauling ice at Belle Springs Creamery, came up, told Ike how well he looked. The President wagged his head and said, "If I can live two more years . . .", let his voice trail off. Said Abe Forney: "You will...
...five-ton shipment of fossils encased in stone arrived this week at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, co-sponsor of the expedition with the National Museum of Buenos Aires...
...bones are of reptiles which lived during the Middle Triassic Period, 170 million years ago. It will take the museum several years to prepare for display...
Directing the expedition were Alfred S. Romer, director of the museum, and Bryan Patterson, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology...