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Etcher Joseph Pennell called it "that Greek garage." But the sun-colored classic shell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is big enough to house the Parthenon in part of one wing. For 20 years, on its rock above the Schuylkill, it has been abuilding. Less than half of its...
Since the Dictator lost his second wife (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) he has "reverted to the Oriental type." The Dictator is from semi-Oriental Georgia, famed for such other torchbearers as the Marrying Mdivanis. First of his friends was the sister of handsome onetime Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich.
Everyone in San Francisco knows what Gump's is. Gump's is a discreet, three-floored store on Post Street, with a notable array of Oriental art, the best collection of jade in the U. S. On its second floor last week Gump's put on a...
Present head of the firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art...
To a U. S. newsman, Villa-Lobos said: "I, who have never seen your city of New York, but who adore it, will set down its melody expressly for you." Seizing a photograph of Manhattan's lower sky line, the composer exclaimed: "The feeling that this photo gives me...