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...PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. The library is showing off its gem: Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours. The finest Dutch manuscript in existence, its exquisitely executed miniatures, 157 in all, depict saintly themes with rustic charm...
...PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. The Morgan Library has dug up a jewel: Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours. Considered the finest Dutch manuscript in existence, it was painted about 500 years ago for Catherine's wedding by an artist known only as the Arenberg Master. Its two volumes became separated and one was thought to be the complete work until last year, when the library discovered the second half in a private European collection. His exquisitely executed miniatures, 157 in all, depict saintly themes with delightful rusticity: the Holy Family supping by a cozy fireplace...
...York Herald (now the Herald Tribune). By 1928, he was city editor. And for seven loud years, he steered the newsroom through a stirring and gaudy time. Speakeasies flourished. Lindbergh had just hopped the Atlantic; Babe Ruth had just hit 60 home runs. J. Pierpont Morgan posed for photographers with a lady midget in his lap. Resting peacefully in his room at the Park Central Hotel, Manhattan Gambler Arnold Rothstein was dispatched by a murderer's bullet...
...infancy. A year ago, the citizens of five U.S. cities, visiting a show sent by the government of Nationalist China, discovered the magnificence of the old Peking Palace Museum treasures. Last week another dazzling and instructive exhibition-though inevitably smaller-went on display at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library...
With posies for the boss's secretary and ruses for the boss, J. Pierpont goes sonic. The boss is "J.B." Bigley, a pince-nezed P.G. Wodehouse caricature of a corporation president, which is precisely the way ex-Crooner Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts...