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...like most other human enterprises, has its makers, sellers, buyers and commentators. Prominent living makers of art-Matisse, Picasso, Zuloaga, Augustus John, Rockwell Kent-are known at least by name to multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
...Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Columbia, Wesleyan, Union, Amherst, innumerable clubs. He has no official connection with the Metropolitan Museum, but is an honorary fellow of that institution, as well as of the American Institute of Architects. Other Cortissoz books: Augustus Saint Gaudens; John La Farge; Art and Common Sense; The Life of Whitelaw Reid; American Artists; Personalities...
...Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Mansfield, Hervey Allen, reports for the young, affairs political, scientific, artistic. Founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...
...Rescinded its approval of Charles Augustus Stone as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
...succeed Mr. Hughes as a citizen board member, Charles Augustus Stone was chosen. Tall and spare and resolute, Mr. Stone is chairman of the board of Stone & Webster, Inc., which began as a humble partnership between himself and a Harvard classmate (TIME, July 8). Their engineers have constructed central plants which today supply one-sixth of all U. S. citizens with power and light. Under them also have risen great factories, hotels, schools, Army camps. In addition to their buildings, Stone & Webster, Inc. own and operate public utility services throughout the lands. Among the companies which they manage, in which...