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Died. Inglis Moore Uppercu, 66, one time world's largest retailer of luxury cars (Manhattan's Uppercu Cadillac Corp.); after a long illness; in Manhattan. The fair-haired, blue-eyed Chicagoan closed his law books in 1896 to work as a Duryea automobile mechanic, in 1931 after 29 years as Cadillac's master salesman sold out to General Motors...
...Albert Lasker, the man who retired the industry's haughtiest name, Lord & Thomas, when he himself retired from the advertising business last year (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In 1919 Pepsodent was a peewee four-year-old formula (gross sales: around $2,000 a week), manufactured by a Scottish Chicagoan, the late Douglas Smith. Lasker agreed to risk $300,000 to advertise the new product, asked only a minority interest in the company in return. Before long, thanks to Lord & Thomas, it was obvious that profit-minded Lasker had made one of the best deals of his life...
David Rubinoff, veteran king of the shmaltz fiddlers, was sued for $50,000 by a Chicagoan who charged the sad-eyed violinist with alienating his late wife's affections back in the late...
Left in mid-brushstroke as of Aug. 31, unless private funds come to their rescue, will be 42 uniformed artists (19 civilian employes, 23 from the Army). Among the painters involved are: George Biddle himself (now in Algeria), Californian Millard Sheets, Texan Howard Cook, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, New Yorkers Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook...
...Washington, varnishing-day guests saw oils, water colors and some drawings of subjects from a pre-Pearl Harbor defense plant (by Paul Sample) to Texas Artist Torn Lea's literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...