Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runs to a dairy shop to buy butter for the royal breakfast tray-if he were merely to ask for it, he says, palace red tape would keep him waiting until dinner time. Like the Little King, he loves simple pleasures. Once a year he retires to a floating pavilion next to his palace for 30 days' meditation, but no sooner has he entered with great pomp than he scoots out the back door, dallies 29 days with his 100 wives (in better days he had twice as many), slips back in, and on the 30th day publicly emerges...
Back to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter bound for Vladivostok went "Big Joe," unpopular, 60-foot, stainless-steel statue of a worker that last year surmounted the Russian Pavilion at New York World's Fair...
...their audience. Not so the musicians of the impeccable Boston Symphony, who, under the fastidious baton of Serge Koussevitzky, delicately perform each year a carefully chosen sheaf of symphonies for visitors and tourists at Stockbridge in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills. In & around an acoustically perfect, wedge-shaped $80,000 pavilion (called with New England sobriety a "Music Shed"), which rises on the greensward at Tanglewood, where Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, visiting Boston Brahmins and socialites, whether lying down or sitting up, take their summer music as critically as their winter...
Died. Arthur Henry Fleming, 84, West Coast lumberman who endowed California Institute of Technology with more than $5,000,000; of a heart ailment; in Pasadena. In 1926 Philanthropist Fleming built a pavilion to preserve the historic railroad car 24190, in which armistices for World War I and the surrender of France in World War II were signed...
...Institute of Arts and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have arranged one-man shows of 130-odd Portinari canvases (for typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer his lacquered society portraits. To make money, Portinari still paints them...