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Months ago the Department of the Interior was proud to accept for Yosemite National Park Museum a collection of 108 paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely responsible for the acquisition of Yosemite Valley as a National Park (TIME. Dec. 28). This week Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of 14 large landscapes, the first of a series of shows honoring the 100th Anniversary of a far better painter, directly responsible for the entire program of U. S. national parks: Thomas Moran...
...sympathy with the manner in which her brother-in-law, Acting Premier Kung, was handling the situation last week. He sent thousands of troops hurrying to attempt to encircle Sian, and he claimed there was extreme need of haste because Chinese Communist troops were dusting down from the interior toward Sian. The trouble with such Communists is that they are un-Chinese in important respects. If they ever laid hands on the Dictator, whose troops have killed thousands of Chinese Communists, they would not be troubled in the least by his refusal to say anything before they either chopped...
...attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most of the life work of the man who for many years was Yosemite Valley's second most famed inhabitant: the late Christian ("Chris") Jorgensen...
Being financially independent, Chris Jorgensen sold few of his pictures. When his widow died last February, she willed nearly 200 of them to the Department of the Interior, which in turn presented them to Yosemite Park's little museum...
...great British writers whose reputation has not bloomed abroad as well as at home is William Morris, Pre-Raphaelite, craftsman, for whom the Morris chair was named, child prodigy (he read the Waverly novels at the age of 4), interior decorator, architect, wealthy Socialist, amazingly prolific poet and creator of stained glass windows. Morris was the leading figure among British Socialists when George Bernard Shaw, 22 years younger, first met him. Shaw, author of five unpublished novels, principally known as a speaker in seething, rapidly-shifting London radical circles, was editing a small magazine at that time. To fill...