Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Received by Joseph Stalin, from the glassworkers at the Sklara Poremba factory (who are either brave or humorless) : a crystal ball. Stalin shot it along to the Museum of the Revolution...
John O. Brew, present lecturer on Anthropology and one of the University's younger archaeologists, has been appointed to the directorship of Peabody Museum, America's oldest anthropological institute...
Brew, who received his Ph.D. here in 1941, becomes the sixth director of the Museum...
Paintings, including masterpieces by Rodin, Whistler, and Roosetti, are included in the gift which museum authorities estimate have actually doubled the size of the original Fogg collection. Winthrop also included $100,000 in his bequest to care for the art objects...
...additional gift of rare Oriental miniatures, was promised the Museum last Thursday when it was announced that Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller had left her 26-item collection to her husband, on the condition that the Fogg Museum receive it on his death. No estimate has yet been placed on these objects...