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Such scornful sentiments have helped to make shaggy, unorthodox Robert Maxwell, 43, Britain's most unpopular publisher - among other publishers. By acting on his beliefs, Maxwell has not only become a multimillionaire, but also in 15 years has lifted his Pergamon Press Ltd. from obscurity to No. 1 rank as a publisher of scientific and technical books (600 last year) and trade journals (120, from The Archives of Oral Biology to Problems of Cybernetics...
...National Gallery proclaimed: TREASURES OF WORLD CULTURE SAVED BY THE SOVIET UNION. Ninety freight cars had already been unloaded at East Berlin's Museum Island, and 210 more carloads were on the way. Already back in place at the National Gallery and its companion museum, the Pergamon: ¶ The original Ishtar Gate and Procession Street built for King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon about 580 B.C. and having reliefs of lions, bulls and dragons in white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned...
...heavy silence, thousands of East Berliners last week shuffled through their city's Pergamon Museum, on Museum Island. On view, guarded by alert People's Police, were 95 paintings, drawings, and woodcuts by modern and "prerevolutionary" Russian artists, the first big exhibit of Russian art to travel outside the U.S.S.R. since...
...that was what Statesman Stimson found he said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...
After describing the growth of Pergamon, Dr. Tarbell showed a number of stereopticon views based on the researches made by the society at Berlin. Among the views shown were the market place, the temple to Athena, the library, the theatre, the temples to Trajan and Julian, the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the great altar in which sacrifices were made. Views were also shown of the sculptures on the friezes of the different buildings, which are valuable as giving an idea of the implements of warfare used at that time. The sculpture of Pergamon lacks the grace and beauty which marks...