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...World. Ted Thackrey met Mrs. Elaine for the first time about three weeks ago, through a mutual friend who intended to put up half the money for the Compass. When the friend backed out, Mrs. Elaine coolly agreed to put up both halves. For around $2,000,000 she will get all the preferred stock; Thackrey will hold 51% of the common, and complete control...
...year ago, when Goucher went hunting for a new (and sixth) president, it found just the man it wanted, at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Balding, 47-year-old Otto Frederick Kraushaar had been teaching philosophy at Smith for 14 years. He liked Goucher just fine, both for size (he scorns mass "diploma mills") and for the fact that he'd still be teaching women ("If you educate a man, you educate an individual; if you educate a woman, you educate a family"). By last week, when he was inaugurated, Philosopher Kraushaar found himself facing a few problems unique...
Last week the pupils of John Kerr were remembering old Charley just as he would have wanted. When he died at 80, three weeks ago, only a handful of people bothered to go to his funeral, but by last week the whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend...
Conquests to Come. Three months ago, convoyed by a housekeeper, valet and chauffeur, Berle moved into a sumptuous nine-room bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. There he keeps in touch with Broadway and Hollywood through two phones in each of four rooms. Aside from mellowing him, success has awakened some tony tastes that amuse old acquaintances. He has recently taken to Homburgs, dark, dignified suits, fancier restaurants, and an occasional pose of world-weariness...
...Jacob Epstein, 50-year-old Henry Moore is Britain's best and most controversial sculptor. Moore's half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what...