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...shrieking-green bay windows of a shop that opened last week at No. 201 East 44th Street, Manhattan. A small device on the door showed the American eagle rampant, announced that the shop was guarded by the Supreme Protective System Co., ip East 23rd Street. Twinkling in the display windows, dazzling passersby, were bottles, arrogantly full...
...Gallery XIV a loan exhibition of Persian Painting will be on display until Thursday. This exhibition includes some of the objects from the Museum collection as well as notable loans from the Morgan Library, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine, Philip Hofer, Esq., the Ross Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dr. Edward W. Forbes and Professor Paul J. Sachs. It includes outstanding examples of work from the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, laying stress upon the important periods of work done during that time...
...unknown champion has arisen, a veritable Whalen, who declares that when Boston celebrates her 300th anniversary, eating establishments which openly display the brass rail, sawdust and an oyster-bar, barbaric symbols of a bygone age, will remove the same or be relieved of their licenses (see the Boston Herald, the Chief of Police or Ezekiel 23). Frequenters of such landmarks as the Loch-Ober Cafe and Jake Wirth's will be delighted to know that these historic features which have so often influenced their baser natures in the past, are to be relegated to the scrap heap...
There is at present on exhibition in a corner of the Widener Treasure Room a display which holds a great deal of interest through its Harvard associations. This consists of several books owned by President Dunster during his presidency here from 1640 to 1654, and in addition, the one surviving book from John Harvard's library which was destroyed by fire...
Other volumes of interest in the same case include one entitled "New England's First Fruits". This is the first printed account of Harvard and was published in London in 1643. There is also on display President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573. Dunster, who was Harvard's first president, had his bookplate in Greek pasted at the foot of the title page, and as it is dated 1638, it shows that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Dunster family Bible is another volume...