Word: intro
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...ends of his silky white mustache curling up wards. He has the unusual faculty of making casual listeners as enthusiastic about digging as he is, has been known to excite even blase newsmen. Ancient kings he has disinterred he refers to as "my friends," jokes about his duty to intro duce them to modern civilization. The shrewdness of his Colonial van Breestede ancestors undoubtedly had been of service to him in raising money for his projects, but he does it unostentatiously, without selfishness-for Science. In his long career he has written 21 books, many papers, is still writing, compiling...
...vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent the show two Indian paintings from her own collection. Artist John Sloan and Ethnologist Oliver ("Laughing Boy") La Farge helped prepare an elaborate ''Intro duction to American Indian Art" to sell to the customers...