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MOST of the nation's art museums are less than half a century old, but they have shot up fast. This week the Minneapolis Institute of Arts celebrated its 40th anniversary with an exhibition of 40 masterpieces culled from its collection of some 25,000 art objects. The museum's latest acquisition, a Chardin (opposite), is perhaps the most brilliant painting in the show...
...Philbrick has probably picked his first chance to react to the stinging rebuke to his unfounded criticism of the FOR on the eve of its 40th Anniversary. The January Issue of Fellowship described his criticism of FOR in the following...
...organization called the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Every important publication in the U.S. that carries advertising and has a paid circulation is a member of the A.B.C. As its name indicates, the bureau is the authority on correct circulation figures. This month the A.B.C. is celebrating its 40th anniversary...
...criminals or animals. But the bedlams of the 1800s gave way only to the unspeakable "back wards" of the 1900s, where men, women and children languished in filth and darkness. Now, many states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount of money spent on mental patients ($1.11 a day). But last week Indiana was in the midst of a "total push" to bring itself to top rank...
...city instead of $80,000 in lottery money they really wanted. The college fortunately was unable to move at the time, and when it finally had to, through desperate need of space, the trustees found it less expensive to take over the old Deaf and Dumb Asylum between 40th and 50th Streets, right next to the half-covered coffins in Potter's Field, than to build on the botanical land. That land remained in Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University a yearly rent of three...