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Director Sweeney canvassed collections as far afield as Florida and California. A collector in Fort Lauderdale sent Joan Miró's Dancer Listening to Organ Music in Gothic Cathedral; a San Franciscan contributed a sculpture by Britain's Henry Moore. From Switzerland, Norway and The Netherlands came such prizes as Henri Rousseau's The Hungry Lion, Edvard Munch's The Cry, and Marc Chagall's Homage to Apollinaire...
...Atheneum reached out for more English landscapes and portraiture, samples of Dutch, French and Italian masters. A generation ago, thanks in part to a million-dollar bequest from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner, the directors began sampling modern art as well, e.g., Mondrian, Dali, Picasso, Mir...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...kronk," was the shy answer. "Du kenst mir fixen? [I'm sick...
They Cried for Peace. Always, in Communist whimsy and in hard-boiled oration, the dove cried "peace." In eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...