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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President-Director Jerome T. Kilty '50 announced the nine principals of his group's offering, which hits the boards of the Germanic Museum April 18 for a one-week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTW Rounds Out 'Murder' Casting As HDC Continues Hunting Director | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

...Chicago, startled policemen discovered how one Roger Anderson had managed to steal antiques from the Historical Society's well-guarded museum: he hid under Abraham Lincoln's bed until attendants went home for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...addition to the University's bequest, Lamont willed another $5,000,000 to charitabic and educational institutions. Included among these are Phillips Exeter Academy, which receives $2,000,000; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $1,000,000; and the New York Public Library and American Museum of Natural History, $250,000 each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont's Will Grants University $5,000,000 | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

...long ago, he asked a news photographer to use tissue over his flashbulbs so as not to accent Wright's wrinkles; but the new wrinkles in his architecture are impossible to hide. He crammed the FORUM with diagrams of fresh ideas as seemingly wild as the spiral museum he designed for Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ahead of His Time | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Soviet officers were showing U.S. correspondents through Germany's Russian zone. Proudly they pointed out the war-battered Zwinger in Dresden. Plans were well under way, they boasted, for restoring the museum. But where were all the paintings listed in the catalogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tasteful Trophies | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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