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Died. George Eumorfopoulos, 76, English-born Greek art collector who gave his priceless Oriental and Chinese ceramics, bronzes, sculptures to the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum for a paltry $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1935); in London.
After expertizing at the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and after a grand tour of the East as Consul-General-at-Large, Nelson Johnson was called home again. On his way he stopped in Japan, just after the great Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign...
Fogg Museum is now presenting an exhibit of eighteenth century Japanese prints by Utagawa Toyakuni, one of the finest craftsmen Japan has ever produced. The prints, which are being shown on the first floor of the museum, are primarily humorous and satirical renditions of the actors who lived during the...
If these raider rumors seemed remote and nebulous, the fate of 16,697-ton Rawalpindi was definite. This ship, a fast Peninsular & Oriental steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast...
Joseph A. Welssberger, celebrated authority on Oriental art, will lecture in Hunt Hall on "Art and Life in Asia Minor," today at 4:30.