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...cronies are Steelman Myron Taylor, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Fabulous stories surround his passion for outdoor life. He owns four miles of trout stream in New York's gamey Beaver Kill, issued gold-engraved membership cards to a half-dozen friends. In North Carolina "Joe" Knapp owns Knotts Island, a 5,000-acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian...
...during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting and one of tire two known proofs of that lithograph were both in the Modern Museum's show last week. Skillfully composed, The Verdict of the People showed a great beaver-hatted crowd round the courthouse steps of a little Missouri town, cheering election returns read by a linen-jacketed judge...
...friend who had not seen John Steuart Curry since he was a potent footballer at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. 15 years ago would hardly recognize him today. Apple-cheeked, fat, bald, he now weighs 187 pounds, lives quietly in Westport, Conn. He is so sensitive about his art that he frequently decides to give it up. But Curry is generally considered the greatest painter of Kansas and of the circus in the U. S. His two most famed works Tornado (see reproduction) and Baptism in Kansas won him important critical accolades in Chicago and Manhattan but only served...
Known Moley dinner companions: Bruce Barton; William Thomas Grant of Grant stores; Andrew J. Maloney of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron; James Cash Penney of Penney stores; Harry C. Beaver of Worthington Pump...
Tony and Brenda were happily married, though Brenda. a recent toast of the town, felt exiled in the kind of hearty country life to which Tony was wedded. When John Beaver, a beautiful specimen of the unpopular sponger, spent a weekend with them. Brenda amused herself by being nice to him. One thing led to another and soon Brenda found herself having a full-time affair with the not-too-enthusiastic Beaver, while innocent Tony moped for her at home. The sudden death of their little son brought Brenda into the open. She announced to the stunned Tony that...