Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the building was opened as a guest house, it was remodelled extensively inside with period furnishings to match, some of them given or lent by graduates, others on loan from the Fogg or the Metropolitan in New York. The star visitors so far have been ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who stayed there when he came to speak at the Business School last spring, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was in Cambridge for a short time this summer. President Conant also stays there occasionally in one room he particularly likes-because it has a shower instead of a bath...
...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...
...wintry January afternoon in 1916, the Metropolitan Opera's Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Antonio Scotti and Andres de Segurola bundled into a train for one of their weekly performances in Philadelphia. For the top performers in the Met's golden age it was a routine trip, but one they always made the most of. This time, the party sipped champagne...
Along with "White Heat" is "Counter Punch," the Metropolitan's latest Joe Palooka offering. If you enjoy watching a pair of windmills rabbit-punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...