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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucky three years ago incorporated himself as the nonprofit (and taxexempt) Fuller Research Foundation. Businessmen may sneer at Bucky, but artists are more sympathetic. Last week 91 Chicago artists (most of them young abstractionists) contributed their paintings, sculptures and photographs to a Chicago art auction that raised $700 for Bucky...
That attraction, advertised in facsimiles of century-old handbills, was just one of the highlights of a show that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways...
Director Rathbone seemed to be getting the mass appreciation. At week's end, visitors were packing into his museum at a faster rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...
...This week Philadelphia's Art Alliance put models and plans for 15 U.S. war memorials on display. The work of well-established firms selected by the U.S. Battle Monuments Commission,* they would be translated into stone within two years at military cemeteries in Britain, Europe, North Africa and the Philippines...
...shrunken modern world still has pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...