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...many years the last great private U. S. art collection has hung on the walls of Lynnewood Hall, a chill, pedimented mansion in Elkins Park, Philadelphia suburb. The collection was begun by Peter Arrell Brown Widener, onetime butcher's boy, who made his pile in Civil War meat contracts and later streetcar franchises. His second and only surviving son, Joseph Early Widener, winnowed P. A. B.'s 700 pictures, made many a swap, bought only the best, until 100 canvases, all good and many masterpieces, glowed like jewels in Lynnewood Hall. The Widener collection was valued as high...
...take opera to smaller U. S. cities by the busload. Picking Rossini's oldtime Barber of Seville as the most portable opera (two scenic sets, chorus optional) that he could think of, he chartered a big, shiny Greyhound-type bus, remodeled its roof to accommodate a ten-foot pile of scenery, and started signing up a busworthy crew of singers from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He called his new venture "Opera a la Cart...
trust. It bore the first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says Biographer Nevins, "the statement was true." He adds: "We must not forget that Rockefeller began to give as soon as he began to earn...
...combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will stop the help that we are giving to almost the last free people now fighting to hold them at bay. . . . "We will continue to pile up our defense and our armaments. We will continue to help those who resist aggression and who now hold the aggressors far from our shores...
...parades had been broken up, that the N. R. P. had tried to break up his campaign at the last minute by planting guns on his supporters and then accusing them of plotting rebellion. Meanwhile Arias sat tight, confined himself to a little Red-baiting, watched his support pile up. His party had already answered the Fascist charges, promised that Panama "will not commit the folly of experimenting with Fascist, Nazi or Communist doctrines." Discouraged, muttering threats to seek power by force when "legal means" had failed, Alfaro scooted for the Canal Zone two days before the elections. Last June...