Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast majority of U.S. gallerygoers had never seen such a collection before and never would again. They had been making the most of the world art masterpieces which once hung in Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
...Then the U.S. Army sent it on tour (TIME, May 10), and another million in twelve cities had had a look-paying some $290,000 (to be used as relief for needy German children) for the privilege. In St. Louis alone, a record 227,414 jammed the City Art Museum during an 18-day exhibition, outdoing even the Manhattan attendance by some 90,000. This week in Toledo the collection is making its final appearance before being returned to Germany...
...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
...Boston's most treasured rituals is being shown off at the Opera House this week and next. An exhibition of matrons, clothes, and jewelry comparable to a museum display can be viewed daily between the acts of any of the operas which the Metropolitan is putting on during its current stand...
...great surprise. The son of a Pasadena physicist, he has also been studying the distribution, taxonomic position and ecology of mollusks in Southern California. Where would all this lead him (after four years at the University of Michigan)? "Oh, I'll probably end up in some university museum or something. One can't live on just nothing...