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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lent 25 paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Conservative Philadelphians scorned his moderns as "quack practitioners" and "cheats."Quick-tempered Alfred Barnes took his paintings back from the academy, locked up his collection in a $500,000 limestone museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time, he set up the Barnes Foundation to offer free art training to a limited number of carefully selected students a year. Since then, few besides foundation students and personal friends (including John Dewey, Katharine Cornell, Charles Laughton, Albert Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts) have seen...
Caruso himself, at any rate, never commanded the hysterical adulation that swamped Lanza last winter and spring on his latest concert tour. Sam Weiler has a nightmarish memory of a fracturing scene in Scranton, Pa., where the tour began: "We get to the department store [to autograph record albums], and we can't get through the people. They make an aisle for us. There were women everywhere. You couldn't move. They were trampling merchandise, standing on washing machines, on counters, everywhere. Some women yelled, 'Hey, Mario, be my love!' They started shoving. The Fire Department...
Died. Dr. Albert C. Barnes, 78, discoverer of Argyrol, irascible collector of modern art; after a motor accident; in Phoenixville, Pa...
...CORNELL Tunkhannock, Pa...
...Texarkana, Ark., Allentown, Pa., Monroe, La., Springfield, Mo., Meriden, Conn., Lorain, Ohio, and in Huntington, Beckley and Charleston...