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...Testifying in the SEC's investigation of protective committees in Washington last week, Lawyer Robert Taylor Swaine of the famed Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood revealed himself as one of the two real authors of that bankruptcy legislation. Other was prodigious Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. Lawyer Swaine, who hardly saw eye to eye with the young Braintruster, suavely declared that the final draft represented "blending" and '-'compromises" of their two views...
Fourteen years ago Clarence Augustus Chant, longtime professor of astrophysics at University of Toronto, gave a talk on a comet, in his usual simple lyrical style, to a group of amateur astronomers. When he had finished a stranger went up and shook his hand warmly...
Last week came Clarence Augustus Chant's 70th birthday. That same day David Dunlap Observatory was officially opened and Dr. Chant officially became its director-master of the world's second largest telescope in service...
Henry A. Erhard, E. Marshall Field, Robert H. Gardiner, Alfred C. Hanford, Frederick P. Keppel, William S. Lawrence, Halfdan Lee, Delmar Leighton, Augustus P. Loring, Jr., Charles Locke, George N. Northrop, Arthur Oakes, George S. Oliver, Leslie R. Porter, James A. Roberts, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Renouf Russell, Stephen Sabine, F. Skiddy Von Stade, Albert Stickney, S. Gardner Sleeper, Robert Sullivan, Oscar H. Stern, Frederick G. White, and Barrett Wondell...
Thirty years ago there were three U. S. sculptors known to every student: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, George Grey Barnard. The Grand Central Art Galleries last week gave the only survivor of the trio, 71-year-old George Grey Barnard, his first one-man show in 20 years. One glance around showed that George Grey Barnard is still one of the great sculptors...