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During the war, mass U.S. audiences had their first real chance to see some of the finest and some of the worst documentaries. Now that the war is over, and most documentary makers are wondering what next, the Film Library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting the most imposing list of documentaries (over 100) ever assembled. The films range from early newsreels and the first documentary masterpieces (like Robert Flaherty's 24-year-old Nanook of the North} to Walt Disney's wartime educational films and samples of the Army and Navy...
Besides being shown at the museum until mid-July, some of the films will be distributed to 350-odd organizations throughout the U.S.: colleges, Parent-Teacher Associations, clubs, even prisons. The museum program does not include every documentary of first-rate interest. (Notable omissions: all newsreels since 1931; issues of MARCH OF TIME since 1940.) But cinemaddicts who still doubt that the documentary is growing up might do well to paste the following titles in their hats, and to see them-in parish house, college, jail, or Manhattan-if opportunity offers...
...editor of your page on People [TIME, Dec. 17] must be hard up for copy and cuts when he has to fall back on a 13-year-old photo of my friends Joad and Price, and serve it up as current gossip. This photo was taken in a private museum in Chiswick, London, England, on Sept...
Other improvements planned for the White House: a new $50,000 heating system; a presidential museum (for the knickknacks of ex-Presidents) ; a $100,000 landscaping job on the White House grounds; a semicircular staircase of marble and iron grillwork for the East Wing...
Died. Dr. Thomas Barbour, 61, 6-ft.-6 snake-loving, pre-eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...