Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supervise the job the Duke had called in aging Dr. Barnum Brown, a world-famed paleontologist and curator of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, whose avocation is oil geology...
...extraordinary impression Paricutin has made on scientists springs from its long, brilliant run and the fact that it is the first volcano they have been able to watch from birth. Last week, fresh from an expedition to it, Geologist Paul O. McGrew of the Chicago Natural History Museum made a scientific report on Paricutin. Said he, among other things: "This tremendous display was beyond all description. ... On leaving this monster I felt as though I were leaving a World Series baseball game in the sixth inning with the score tied...
...tourists buy Reyes' bright, fantastic watercolors almost as fast as he turns them out. Chief U.S. collector is Beautician Helena Rubinstein, who owns over 100 doodles. There are two Reyes works in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and Director of the School for Overseas Administration, of which the new course is a part, will head the school. The course will last six months, with headquarters located in the Germanic Museum. Assisting Professor Friedrich as Deputy and Associate Directors of CATS are Morle Fainsod, associate professor of Government (Captain, Spec. Res.), and Colonel John Perkins, respectively...