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...First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern railroads; Ralph Budd of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern, Henry Alexander Scandrrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, Frederick Ely Williamson of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. President Jaffray is spectacled, quiet, usually law-abiding. He was not law-abiding last autumn when he and two other bankers had too many wild ducks in their possession, were fined...
Workmen rolled tubs full of pink and blue hydrangeas into the tunnel-like entrance of Burlington House early one morning last week in token that London's Social Season was about to begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...
...Private View is not so private. About 5.000 people receive invitations to it. All day long, from ten in the morning till six at night, long lines of white-wheeled limousines and taxicabs rolled down Piccadilly and through the gates of Burlington House. Knowing ones came not at teatime, when the galleries seethed with humanity, but just before lunch when Cabinet Ministers, the Lords of Britain and their ladies, tycoons and literary lions arrived to greet each other effusively, stand self-consciously before their portraits, make disparaging remarks about the rest of the 1,686 works exhibited...
There should have been 1,691. But last minute scandal kept five pictures off Burlington House's chaste walls. Year ago one Mark Symons painted what the penny press described as the Picture of the Year. Not particularly well painted, harsh in color, it was a crucifixion with a Flanders battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist...
Tariff-born Deal. From the Ohio mills of Republic Steel Corp. much unfinished steel used to go to its subsidiary Canadian Metal Products Co. Ltd. at Guelph, Ont. (where was born Arthur W. Cutten, famed Chicago bull). Last week Canadian Metal Products was sold to Burlington Steel Co. Ltd. of Hamilton, Ont. The new Canadian tariff on steel was responsible for the deal...