Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: René Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). François Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: René Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Hérold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Faÿ (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended...
Plated Decks. In Cleveland, the Rocky River Museum announced it would rename Oscar, its pet turtle, who had laid...
Dumbarton Oaks, palatial Washington estato, Art Museum, and scene of the current United Nations conference, has been Harvard property and a subsidiary of Fogg Museum since late in 1940, when it was turned over to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss of Georgetown...
...best U.S. modern architecture of the past dozen years-that is the material of a book on sale last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Built in U.S.A.-1932-1944 ($3) reviews handsomely in pictures and text 47 structures from homes to bridges, and suggests good news for people who have been afraid that modern architecture was always going to look like so many perforated white shoeboxes...
...legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...