Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available for four months of the year at the rate of $12 per week. To be true to its purpose, the colony must be kept small, never is to exceed 25. There creators in any branch of the arts may work in perfect seclusion, even have meals brought to their studio doors. There are dormitories for men, equipment for physical recreation, an excellent library...
...Last week's benefit, the audience at which stood and applauded when Mrs. MacDowell took the stage, netted $15,000 toward a proposed endowment increase...
...London last week the public went to see a momentous collection of Italian Renaissance paintings at Old Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 23). Notables had already swarmed through the galleries, among them the Philip Snowdens, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Austen Chamberlains (she sponsored the show), the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wellington, Margot Asquith. Mayfair booksellers announced an unprecedented sale of Italian art books. At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges...
...into such crannies of knowledge is the habit of the American Historical Society. The members met last week at Duke University (Durham, N. C.). Their president for 1930: Japan-born Evarts Boutell Greene, De Witt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, eminent authority on colonial times, author (Provincial America, Government of Illinois...
...week before Publisher Taft's last illness, Publisher Roy Howard telephoned "the first news story from a ship at sea" from the Leviathan to his syndicate (TIME, Dec. 30). But the week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three...