Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio for the stayaways. One of the Met's three new wings will hold the $500,000 collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, now housed in its own building in Greenwich Village, three and a half miles away...
...music in swing tempo will be rendered by Eddie Wittstein and his music-makers at the informal dance in Yale's Paine Whitney Gymnasium on the evening of December 1; he is tuning up for a turnout of at least 1100 couples. An admission charge of $3.60 per couple will help allay the expenses, $850 of which is allotted for decorations alone. No corsages will be allowed...
...Chicago Annual" is the season's biggest U.S. art event. This year 162 U.S. artists were invited to exhibit, and were tempted with $4,000 in cash prizes-$800 more than Carnegie offers. The jury, imported from New York, included Juliana Force, doughty duenna of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, and two divergent painters of Manhattan life: Reginald Marsh, who paints it like a carnival barker, and Raphael Soyer, who paints it like a soft-hearted social worker. As happens with artist-dominated juries, the prizes at Chicago's Art Institute went to technically excellent...
Died. Dr. Charles Whitney Gilmore, 71, National Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, who discovered and reconstructed the gigantic prehistoric Diplodocus, one of the lamest-brained creatures on record (70-to-80 ft. long, 15-to-30 tons, apple-sized cranium); after a stroke; in Washington...
...stuffing and paint. Low-priced textiles for dolls' clothes were scarce. After thoroughly combing the market, Fleischaker & Baum Co. gave up the search for human hair for their life like EffanBee Dolls. (Prewar EffanBee Dolls wore human hair imported from Italy and China.) In Leominster, Mass., F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. was ready to make doll carriages again, but could not recruit enough ex-war workers who were willing to work for peacetime wages...