Word: alden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retired. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 56, from the editorship of Harpers Magazine and the board-chairmanship of Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation...
...some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work...
...Berry, Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant Commander W. E. MacKay, and Lieutenant R. B. McRight U.S.N., who have completed their required two years land duty, will begin sea-duty next fall and are replaced by Commander R. C. Williams of the U.S.S. Barry, Lieutenant Commander C. S. Alden, skipper of the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, and Lieutenant E. A. Seay, executive officer on board the submarine...
...Anderson 4 Wiggins Root Levine 3 Gillbert Backus Raymond 2 Campbell Smith Kirkpatrick Bow Perry Ropbertson Christel Freshman Stroke Hurlburt Wilsey Westfall 7 Stackpole Wood Lucke 6 Whipple Pflaumer Mowhet 5 Breckinridge Hamilton Loewenstein 4 Nazro Bowell Nordor 3 Lawrence E. Kellogg Nashner 2 Knowles Smith Roulston Bow Kirkland Alden Wing...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...