Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Sex Standards" will be discussed at the November 5 forum, Richard A. Holman, president of the Law School Forum, announced yesterday. Dr. Margaret Meade, cultural anthropologist of the Museum of Natural History in New York and Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, author and psychiatrist, will occupy the platform...
Francis Henry Taylor presides over one of the world's biggest & best art collections. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which he directs, bulges with a round half-million treasures. But the men who bought and sold them down the centuries, Taylor thinks, are almost as interesting as the works themselves. For twelve years he has been working in his spare time on a history of art-collecting from King Tut to Napoleon-the only work of its kind in English...
...very dead porpoise has suddenly come alive to the nostrils of visitors to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. So startling was the odor that museum staff members still can't agree why the stuffed specimen was hastily whisked off exhibit and exiled to a corner of the Museum's fifth floor...
...started about two months ago, when shirt-sleeved visitors to the Museum's third floor began giving the mammal-on-a-stick plenty of breathing, and smelling space...
...Henry Foy, the museum's head janitor, has a different story. "It stinks," he declares. "Got so we couldn't work around it. Then they moved it up here. When you open the window you can...See what I mean...