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...hulking, baldish, good-natured young man with the nose and neck of a Roman Senator, Artist Brook is no stranger to the galleries. For more than a decade he has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums. In 1931 the Whitney Museum gave him its official accolade by publishing a monograph on his work. In Philadelphia last week the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was pleased to hang some of his canvases in its 129th annual show. In the Manhattan show were 22 more Brook landscapes, figures, portraits...
When they rode out on Onwentsia's close-cropped field, Raymond Guest was still in the East's lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
Responsible not only for the Harvard Glee Club's prestige but for the way it has inspired other colleges to improve their musical standards is the small, baldish, square-set man who conducted last week, mouthing the music along with the boys, smiling approval after each number. He was Archibald Thompson Davison, organist and choirmaster at Appleton Chapel, who has been the Glee Club's director for 21 years. He had been convinced that college boys could sing as artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened...
...rosette of the Order of the Red Flag, served as presiding judge at another Soviet circus, the famed Shakhta Trial of five years ago (TIME, July 2, 1928 et seq.). But the presiding judge last week was not at all what foreign correspondents expected. Judge Vassily Ulrich, a chubby, baldish, moon-faced little fellow, was amiable, quite as eager to exchange quips with witnesses as any periwigged British magistrate...
While the Michigan Legislature cooled its heels in Lansing waiting for a program to be submitted by Detroit bankers, the State Senate voted to make Governor Comstock banking dictator.* The House, wary, postponed action. Breezy, baldish, bespectacled Bill Comstock has long headed the State Democratic organization. His election last autumn was his fourth run for Governor. Since the Depression he has lost his personal fortune, made in lumber; his salary ($5,000 reduced voluntarily to $4,000) was garnisheed under an old judgment last fortnight...