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Bitterly do less endowed young Cleveland artists wish that Russell Barnett Aitken, 25, did not do quite so many things so well. There is no question of his ability as a potter. Since 1931 his amusing, brilliantly colored animals and figures have persistently won prizes in, Cleveland, New York, Syracuse, wherever pottery is shown. His works have been bought by such shrewd collectors as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mrs. Juliana Force. But that is just the beginning of his talents. Ceramist Aitken has been called the Richard Halliburton of modern...
...confused with sober, middle-aged Sculptor Robert Aitken or able, young TIME-FORTUNE Photographer Russell Aikins is Ceramist Russell Barnett Aitken. Son of David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university...
...Atkins, director of the Institute's Agricultural Department, was being groomed to succeed him. One night a Negro lunatic murdered Dr. Atkins. The trustees turned their thoughts to others: Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of the Rosenwald Foundation; Channing Tobias, Y. M. C. A. worker; President Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Negro Press; Emmett Jay Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University. Once they offered the job to President Benjamin F. Hubert of Georgia State Industrial College but Dr. Hubert considered...
Committees and ushers for the Kirkland House Dance which will be held on Friday, April 26 have been announced. The ushers are: James T. Kiblreth '36, head usher, John E. Barnett 4G., Alfred C. Butterfield '37, Frank S. Deland, Jr. '36, James G. Grady '36, Shaun Kelly '36, Clifford Mannal '37, Raymond C. G. Reid '36, Richard S. Salant '35, Douglas C. Scott '36, Robert E. Simon, Jr. '35, Herbert N. Stevens '35, Cyrus C. Wells '36, Roy W. Winsauer...
...charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett Isaacs) to be his consulting engineer in South Africa. Six months later Hammond was working for Cecil Rhodes. For seven years he was one of Rhodes's right-hand men and closest friends. Says Hammond: "He was the greatest personality I have ever known." On an exploring trip into...