Word: vrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building was made possible by a gift to the Program of $1.5 million from Mr. and Mrs. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter...
...donation of $1.5 million by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter of Medford, Ore., made the building possible. Their son, Harlow Carpenter '50 received his master's degree from the Graduate School of Design...
White, speaking to 1400 prominent Bostonians at two simultaneous dinners in the Statler and Somerset Hotels, said that Mr. and Mrs. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter of Medford, Oregon, have offered "to completely underwrite a Harvard Visual Arts Center...
...graduate of Courtois' fake-factory, a celebrated forger named Vrain-Lucas, later went into business for himself, and managed to convince some of France's finest scholars of the authenticity of hasty notes from Cleopatra to Caesar, Alexander to Aristotle and Lazarus to St. Peter, despite the fact that they were written in Old French...
Most fantastic item: a collection of letters (among the correspondents: Plato, Socrates, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne) for which an incredibly gullible French scientist had paid 150,000 gold francs ($30,000) in the 18605 to a forger named Vrain-Lucas. One of the letters, written in French on old parchment, was from Lazarus to Jesus in thanks for having been raised from the dead. Barely discernible were the words: "See you in Rome, dear Lord...