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...Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner would never have wished that-the Pantheon is a mechanistic museum to Thomas Bat'a. Exhibits begin with the crude hand tools he used in learning his trade as a shoemaker's apprentice. Next come samples of the increasingly Fordized shoe machinery which...
...international exchange of valuable art treasures, whereby the Fogg Museum surrenders to the Spanish government the Sahagun Tomb, the most ancient sculptured seculchre of the Middle Ages in Europe, was announced yesterday. The Republic of Spain proclaiming the "sentiments of her gratitude and fraternity which from now on will link the National Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Harvard University," presented the Fogg with a collection of objects of great artistic and archological value. Among the objects received were bronze figurines and columns dating from...
...last January it rose from the tomb and under the impetus of the New Deal started a fresh march. At that time 24 States had voted "No," six "Yes" (Arizona. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana. Wisconsin). During the winter four more (Michigan. Ohio. Oregon and Washington ) joined the "Yes" parade. New Hampshire and North Dakota reconsidered, switched from "No" to "Yes." Last month New Jersey voted "Yes." Last week Illinois did the same. Score...
...Richard E. Fuller. Director of the Institute and Professor of Geology at the University of Washington. Gem of the Fuller collection and chief treasure of the new museum in a consultation room brought intact from the old Peiping Palace of Henry Pu Yi. Here are tomb jades and T'ang idols, furniture, an Emperor's throne, porcelain and statuary - possibly the finest private collection of oriental art in the U. S. Away from the Manchu driblets, the rest of the Seattle Art Institute's collection drops sharply in value. With little money to spend for paintings...
...taken off the torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge into Cologne. In London the massed bands of the Guards play it even now when Britain's notables gather on the Mall to do honor to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...