Word: austin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadcloth Boys. Immediate granddaddies of one contemporary school were the American pre-Raphaelite Edwin Austin Abbey and the Romanticist Howard Pyle, both august figures around Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants...
John Harkness, last year's intercollegiate 175-pound wrestling champion, now at law school; Austin Scott, former president of the club, Phil Strong, treasurer of the Club; George Ditz, former captain of the Stanford University Rugby Club; Fred Smith, former Princeton rugger; Johnny Castle of Yale; and Paul Counihan are the other ranking forwards...
GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH Austin...
...dawn Peter Corbett, junior partner of Johnson, Bellinger & Corbett, rose drunkenly from the clammy garage floor. He was wet, grease-smeared, his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His wife and baby lay huddled asleep in the back seat of the Austin. In a junior bed, flanked by the garden roller and a sandbox, slept Phyllis, 6, John 3. The nurse lay rolled up in an eiderdown beside...
...Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with the big three in price. But they discovered that the driving public remained dissatisfied with automobile economy. Result is the new Champion, which has approximately the size of Ford, the power of Chevrolet and the price of Plymouth, but beats...