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...gaunt, Boston esthete and dance man, Lincoln Kirstein, decided that the U. S. needed home-grown ballet. Rich Balletomaniac Kirstein pooled funds with Edward M. M. Warburg (son of Banker Felix Warburg), got together a bevy of young U. S. ballet dancers, and hired famed Russian Dance Master George Balanchine to teach them. Impresarios Kirstein and Warburg started their venture as a school. But it soon grew into a fledgling ballet troupe, known as the American Ballet...
Paul Felix ("Piggy") Warburg, 35, urbane, waffle-cooking nephew of the late Paul M. Warburg, a founder of the Federal Reserve System, became a partner in the Manhattan brokerage house of wealthy, art-loving Jules S. Bache. Warburg's father, the late Felix M. Warburg, made his mark in Wall Street as the senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in the days when that firm's worldly old Otto Kahn was guiding K-L to new heights in railroad financing and piloting the fortunes of opera stars in his spare time. Piggy Warburg announced his partnership...
Continuing members of this committee are Duncan G. Harris '00, of New York; John S. Fleek '15, of Cleveland; Richard C. Curtis '16, of Boston; Frederick M. Warburg '19, of New York; Joseph S. Clark Jr. '23, of Philadelphia; and Henry S. Morgan '23, of New York, Henry C. Clark '11, is secretary
Among the scientists with whom Wald was associated during his training abroad, were Professors Otto Warburg, of Berlin-Dahlem, Otto Meyerhoff, of Heidelberg, and Paul Karrer, of Zurich. Wald's results are the fruits of many months of painstaking experiments with human, animal, and fish eyes...
Undoubtedly a major work of Spanish Romanesque art is the fresco of a fantastic monster, recently acquired and installed in Warburg Hall at the Fogg Museum. Mounted attractively on the room's south wall, it is likely to win the most casual observer with its vigorous representation and rich color, its size and dignity. The fresco represents a species of griffin, showing the head and wings of an eagle, the neck of a serpent, and the tail of a cock. Though his body is much blurred, ferocity still lives in his eye, tension in his talons, strength in his large...