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...under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior class was graduated in 1927. Both schools still cater to families of little money,* Kent proper sometimes takes pupils free. Last week, on "The Old Man's" 57th birthday, a testimonial dinner was given for him at the Hotel Commodore in Manhattan. Joined to honor him were the Church (Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church), the Universities (Dean Christian Gauss, representing President John Grier Hibben of Princeton), Kent alumni, Kent parents & friends (including Vice...
...Gerald H. Garland, 22, enrolled as a student in Roosevelt Flying School on August 8, 1930, and spent a month at the city Ground School, 119 W. 57th St., New York. On September 9, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, he took his first flying instruction, 1 hr. 45 min. or 1 hr. 55 min. with teacher; then made a solo flight. . . . J. C. GARLAND...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the King & Queen of Great Britain in Parliament robes (see front cover) Artist Edward Barnard Lintott of London, Paris and Manhattan* was at home last week in his pale green, high ceilinged 57th Street, Manhattan, studio. Now 54, Artist Lintott looks ten years younger, is large and broad, immensely genial, bears a marked resemblance to London's favorite music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting...
...welter of gardenias and orchids, amid the sheen of many emeralds, in an atmosphere fragrant with excellent things to drink, a new art gallery blossomed last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell...
...Dartmouth he helped to found The Five Arts (TIME, May 19). Last week young Chrysler gave the Press careful first facts about his new Cheshire House, Inc.,*publishers of fine books in $10 bindings. Cheshire House will not operate for profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper (his father's office is on the 72nd floor), it will issue a newly splendrous classic, later perhaps a few unquestionable contemporaries. Its organization consists of best obtainable craftsmen, a managerial staff of five, a board of directors...