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...citadel of priceless antiquities and such Old Masters as only millionaires can buy, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was long regarded as a costly tomb in which no contemporary art could live. A fund of $150,000 was established by the late George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist...
...Priceless works have been secured for the exhibit from the collections of J. P. Morgan '89, Joseph E. Widener, Lord Duveen, Dr. Hamilton Rice, Mrs. Jesse J. Strauss, Jacob Hirsch, and many other individuals, as well as from various museums...
...sews pages, pastes, mounts, presses, tools and letters all the bindings. For decoration she uses the purest gold leaf, occasionally platinum. For leather she prefers Cape Levant from the backs of goats that have run wild on the Cape of Good Hope for seven years. A surprise among the priceless rarities in Miss Lahey's exhibition was the original typescript of Calvin Coolidge's autobiography, presented free and unsolicited to Mr. Morgan a few months before the author died. For this Miss Lahey found suitable a binding of baby blue French Morocco, decorated with a border of small...
...only is the state of mental exaltation rare, but there are few things that can create this mood; the moments are priceless when one is left intense, immobile by the theme of a book or even the idea of a movie...
...express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would ever ask. He doesn't even spend money in Vienna. Yesterday he went shopping for jewelry all day, pawed over priceless things for hours, then made his only purchase at a hardware store-a 60? flashlight, because the night before the electric lights at the Castle went out. Still an Austrian should not blame him-think of all he lost, or was cheated of in England...