Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of Court, Village and Nomad Rugs from Turkey, Persia, and Central Asia will open at the Fogg Museum of Art at 3 p.m. today. The exhibition will continue until April...
...Harvard men will compete for dates with three Radcliffe girls in front of a studio audience as part of a WHRV sponsored "Casanova Calling" contest in Fogg Museum at 9 p.m. tonight. The audience will also hear the "Crimson Stompers" play Dixieland jazz...
...Maoris, the visitor was Te Rangi Hiroa (The-Heavens-Streaked-with-the-Sun). The outside world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until...
Back in New Zealand after the war, he turned to the scientific study of his Polynesian kinsfolk, traveling all over the Pacific to record their customs and help solve their problems. He joined the Bishop Museum in Honolulu as a field anthropologist and became its director in 1932. In 1946 he was knighted by George...
Died. Henri Verne, 68, longtime director of Paris' famed Louvre, who proved that the Mona Lisa, which was recovered after the 1911 theft, was Leonardo Da Vinci's and not one faked by the thief; in Paris. Verne directed the renovation of the museum during the '305, planned the evacuation of the art treasures during World...