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...Manhattan real-estate holdings last week. Among his new tenants adjoining handsome Rockefeller Center were three bars (one a milk bar), two five-chair bar bershops, a used-jewelry shop, a corse-tiere, a secondhand bookstore. Seller; Beatrice Bend Berle, wife of Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (Mrs. Berle is now a practicing physician in Washington, D.C.) This was the biggest Manhattan realty transaction in seven years. But it had special significance: the latest Rockefeller acquisitions (at three Sixth Avenue corners-two at 48th Street, one at sist Street) could mean the expansion of $100 million Rockefeller...
Died. Air Commodore Augustus H. Orlebar, 46, Deputy Chief of Britain's Combined Operations (Commandos), onetime world's fastest flyer (357.7 m.p.h., in 1929); after several weeks' illness; in London...
...Associated Press a monopoly?-finally reached court last week. On the expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...
When Moore held his first London exhibition in 1928, Artists Augustus John and Jacob Epstein helped by buying drawings. England's conservative critics did not share their enthusiasm. Said London's Morning Post of early Moore exhibitions of carvings: "They are not 'art'; they should come under the heading of 'Embryology and Morphology.'. . . Sensitive people, especially women, must shudder in the face of these monstrosities." But Moore has continued for years to use the female figure as a base for fantastic exercises in form...
...somewhat pompous title matches the humorless tone of its national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A. has done just that for more than 75,000 youngsters. The Moses formula still prevails: up to 15 boys, girls or both, backed by their families or local businessmen, sell...