MR. ROCKEFELLER: Lowell, I'm going to have a good time this Summer along with the World's Fair visitors who come to our Fifty-Third Street show to see the collections of paintings, the Housing Show, and stroll through the outdoor garden of sculpture, or watch some of those early movies. MR. THOMAS: You'll have fun seeing other people having fun with modern art. MR. ROCKEFELLER: That's the first purpose of the Museum — to enable people, (enable everybody), to see and enjoy the things that present-day artists are doing. MR. THOMAS: Nelson, do you remember the story of a modern masterpiece of sculpture, and there was an argument about paying duty on it to get it into the country? MR. ROCKEFELLER: I know the story, Lowell, and it's true. There's no duty on a work of art, but there is on imported metal. The Museum was bringing in Brancusi's sculpture called "Bird in Fight". It was so modern, such simplicity, the Customs House wanted to charge us duty on it merely as a piece of metal. MR. THOMAS: Is the "Bird in Flight" in the present show? MR. ROCKEFELLER: It is. It's here. MR. THOMAS: Nelson, there's another modernistic masterpiece I'm curious about. Among all those weird and incomprehensible creations of the surrealist school, there was one that impressed me the most. That fur-lined teacup. How is that controversial work of art getting along? I heard the moths got into it. MR. ROCKEFELLER: There was a report, Lowell, that moths had got into the fur-lined teacup — but it's just an ugly rumor. MR. THOMAS: Well, that takes a load off my mind, Nelson. Excerpt from radio program, May 10, 1939