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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's art season is to U. S. art what the Broadway season is to the U. S. theatre. It started off with a mild pop last week when the renovated Whitney Museum, after a four-month delay, threw open its doors at last, revealing a fountain filled with goldfish in the lobby, four new galleries filled mostly with familiar U. S. moderns from the Museum's permanent collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...That the churches should work, in such ways as are open to them, for a just peace. . . . Mass hatred is difficult to check, but the churches must make the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Program | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boy's Man | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...tortured. Freed, he retired to his tiny farm, but farming exasperated the most coldly efficient political brain of his century. In 1513 Machiavelli took time out from manuring his fields and in a few months finished the Prince. "Necessity . . . impelled the dedication" to Lorenzo Medici. Lorenzo did not open the book, though he ordered a lackey to take Machiavelli two bottles of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Politician | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Admission to the Open House will be by ticket, but all interested can receive these tickets by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Harvard College Open House, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amateur Astronomers Asked To Hear Telescope Lectures | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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