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Chester Dale is a stockbroker, member of the firm of W. C. Langley & Co. On the Floor his name is sometimes associated with that of M. J. ("Mike") Meehan, famed Radio specialist. Always interested in art, by 1923 the Dales were sufficiently affluent to begin collecting. They did it with a rush. After four years picture dealers and critics rated the Chester Dale collection as one of the four or five most important collections of modern art in the U. S. Antique dealers know that Mrs. Dale's collection of furniture and early American glass is nearly as good...
...party cost, how many orchids and cases of champagne there were. The Christmas holidays, when dancing youths are home from school & college, is the most propitious time for mothers & daughters to perform their parts in Society. Among the more spectacular parties which the women of the nation's affluent conceived, arranged and executed last week were the following: Washington's party-of-the-week, gauged by size and publicity, was not given for a Washingtonian. It was given by Mr. & Mrs. Henry Latham Doherty (utilities) of Manhattan* for Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty, Mrs. Doherty's daughter...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
...Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George C. Lorimer (father of Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post). Then, married, he took up his first pastorate in Montclair, N. J., prosperous-to-affluent suburb, which would have no youth but the ablest. For eleven years the man and his fame developed slowly, irre- sistibly. The man grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years...
...credo says that rich school children are inclined to be lazy, impertinent to their teachers, and that they make less of their opportunities than their less advantaged classmates. Liberal-minded folk usually discount this tenet, refusing to believe that the devil plays checkers exclusively on the coattails of affluent youngsters. But statistics published last week by School & Society appeared to support the credo...