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...BENSON...
...Since the Chicago Stock Exchange adopted a plan to have a paid president in March 1938, conservative and progressive factions have jockeyed for power. Progressive President Thaddeus R. ("Brick") Benson, who pushed through the reorganization, was the man most mentioned for the paid presidency. He went so far as to dissolve his firm, presumably because the new constitution provided that the president must have no business interest in the exchange. But soon after the reorganization Conservative Arthur Betts was named chairman and president pro tern. For a year Chicago waited to see who would get the permanent post. Last week...
Walter J. Bate '39, of Richmond Ind.; Sidney W. Benson 1G, of New York, N. Y.; Douglas M. Bowen 2G, of Glen Ridge, N. J.; Reed H. Bradford, graduate student at Louisiana State; James H. Bready, Haverford, '39; Nazzareno F. Cerone 1G, of Boston, Mass.; Alden Clarke '39, of Cleveland, O.; Howard F. Cline '39, of Baltimore, Md.; William A. Coates' 1G, of Milton, Mass.; James B. Conacher, graduate student at Queen's University; Milton Game 1G, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Henry L. Crosby, Jr., now at American School of Classical Studies, Athens; Norton B. Crowell, 1G, of Dallas...
...bemused-sat humming them, a crowd, many of them oldsters, peered at 255 sane exhibits, murmured brightly: "Isn't it wonderful to see real painting again?" First of the eleven prizes went to Chauncey Ryder, 71, for a harmless landscape; other prizes to sound, conservative Frank W. Benson, 77, mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum, 68. Herself a little dim about who had won the prizes, Donor Logan purred comfortably: "But they're all my old friends...
...many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with those of certain younger, more obscure...