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...world know more about missions than Dr. Mott. Their indefatigable booster, he has never been a blind optimist about them. In 1930 a talk he made to a lay group called together by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who put up the requisite $675,000) led to the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry and resulted in the much-debated Re-Thinking Missions-probably the severest appraisal of missions churchmen have ever penned...
When the 1913 Armory Show gave the U.S. its first real taste of revolutionary European painting, Katherine Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...purging the officers' ranks was even more important as a morale-booster, for a bad officer does more damage than a bad private. The purge was begun on two fronts. Widest was the Army's group of citizen-officers-the 91,150 from the National Guard and reserve...
...promotion to a regular squad, Freshman intramural sports offer the best opportunity to get the team advantages of comradeship and co-operation for those who cannot make the first team--such is the rallying cry of Adolph W. Samborski '26, who for more than ten years has been the booster and Director of Intramural Athletics...
Thereupon Hearst wired harsh words to King Features. Lyons availed himself of a 60-day cancellation clause, signed with McNaught Syndicate. The change did not dampen his cheerful animation. McNaught Syndicate's Charles McAdam (a Lyons booster from way back) was confident he could add a lot more Lyons customers...