Word: reber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grenville C. Bramen, Frederic S. Dean Jr., John E. D'Errico, John W. Quinlan Jr., Harry D. Reber Jr., A. Regal, R. Scully, John S. Stillman, Andrew M. Wales, Lester H. Watson...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...
Last week the discoverer of that petrified forest, Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland, was engaged in a public quarrel with Secretary of the Interior Ickes, whose duty it is to tend to national monuments. Professor Wieland wants Secretary Ickes to spend $95,000 cleaning up the petrified forest and making it easy for paleobotanists to get to. He thinks he has a right to get that done because, besides discovering the forest, he took title to it as a homesteader and then gave it back to the Government for nothing...
...painting that public-spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract painting of three masked figures, two in motley, one in a monk's cowl, seated on a bench playing a violin, clarinet and accordion. Formerly in the Reber Collection in Switzerland, it is the most important Picasso decoration to reach the U. S. in many years...