Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compulsory athletics for civilians and members of the V-12 and NROTC units will end this week, Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday...
...organized calisthenics classes will come to a close on Saturday, Van Wyck said, required of undergraduates in the College. All men needing further credits to make up cuts incurred earlier in the term will have to make special arrangements with the Department of Physical Education...
...room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...
Even when Göring bought things, it was not always to the satisfaction of the seller. One of his best pictures is an early Van Dyck. It was bought through Daniel Katz, an Amsterdam art dealer, and the receipt shows that Göring paid 200,000 marks ($80,000) for it. Hofer estimated the value of the picture at $150,000. There is also a rather acrid exchange of letters in the Göring files between Hofer and a Swiss lawyer, the gist of which is that the Reich Marshal was expected to pay more than...
...Although Göring specialized in old masters, he had a taste for moderns. His loot included two Van Goghs (a Sunflowers and Bridge at Aries), and at least two Renoirs...