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...abstract picture, it was almost good enough to flutter the dovecots on Manhattan's arty 57th Street. It won Baltimore Photographer Aubrey Bodine first prize in a Camera magazine contest. Turned on its right side, it proved to be nothing more than a sunlight& -shadow shot of a row of Baltimore's white marble stoops...
...former showman, lyrics writer, theater owner, real-estate operator, who entered Tammany politics after he had successfully retired at 50. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the U.S.'s most puissant law firms, veteran...
...publishing empire. It was an odd buy for the No. 1 "angel" of New Deal literature, who already puts out such evangelically leftist journals as the Chicago Sun, Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, and the once-conservative monthly Southern Farmer (now run for Field by ex-NYAdministrator Aubrey Williams...
...Southern Farmer in five months has shown "tremendous improvement" under Publisher Aubrey Williams, says Field. He added: "We had to throw out quite a bit of awful advertising. Aubrey is a great fellow. I'm crazy about...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...