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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With TED POSTON, ALVIN DAVIS, IRVING LIEBERMAN, ARTHUR SCHIFF,* BENNETT SCHIFF,* PETER J. MCELROY, JOSEPH KAHN, WM. GREAVES, HARRY SWIRSKY, and EDMOND JALENKO...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
Allen D. Sapp, Jr. 1G, the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music; Allen P. Sindler '48, the James Gordon Bennett Prize for his essay "Political Demagogy in the Lower South"; Harry H. Eckstein '46, the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for an essay entitled "The Sociology of Politics: A Study of Max Weber's Political Thought...
...Inventor. PhotoMetric is the product of more than two years (and $500,000 worth) of research by Henry Booth, boss of Manhattan's Amalgamated Textiles Ltd., one of the biggest U.S. jobbers of fine woolens, and its subsidiary, Bennett, Inc. (eleven U.S. stores). Booth, a grandson of England's famed Salvation Army Founder William Booth, came to the U.S. at 16, worked up in the textile jobbing field. In the depression '30s he merged five jobbers to form Amalgamated, which later became U.S. distributor for Forstmann Woolen Co. and more than 20 top British mills...
Money Saver. After Booth has installed PhotoMetric at all his Bennett stores, he will lease the equipment to other retailers (at $75 to $100 a month, plus royalties) and to manufacturers at cost. The retailer will merely have to take the picture and send it to the manufacturer to make the suit. Booth estimates that any retailer with a gross of $50,000 a year can profitably adopt PhotoMetric. The greatest savings will be in alteration costs, inventory, space, insurance, etc. In fact, Booth thinks that anyone can set up in business with a swatch of cloth and a camera...