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Last year's meeting drew more than 700 alumni to Cincinnati in a session designed to "promote better relations between alumni and the University...
...reception committee of vice squad sleuths and Australian customs men wait ed at Sydney Airport to greet Sir Eugene Goossens, 62, composer of 64 worthy musical works (e.g., The Apocalypse), conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 1947 and maestro of the Cincinnati Symphony for 16 seasons before that. London-born Sir Eugene, thrice-married father of five daughters, was startled by such a homecoming after a European concert tour. So were his welcomers. The "prohibited imports" strewn through Goossens' luggage: some 1,100 "indecent" photographs, several naughty books and movie films, three strange rubber masks...
John Twachtman (1853-1902) began his career in a Cincinnati window shade factory, painting decorations. Making his way to Europe for study, he gradually worked deeper into the spirit of impressionism than any other American. Twachtman saw that air itself has color. Nature was to him a prim Salome who kept on all her seven veils. Deftly, delicately, with more tact than passion, he painted her veiled in atmosphere. His Fishing Boats at Gloucester demonstrates Twachtman's genius for evanescent things...
...taken a dim view of Publisher Ferger, who now votes a majority of the paper's stock under a trust agreement. Once Ferger flew to see him in Chicago, and at the end of their conference said he was going directly to catch his plane back to Cincinnati. Stuart later checked Ferger's expense account for the trip, found that it did not jibe with Ferger's account...
Stuart thought that his $1,500,000 block of debentures might bring as much as $3,000,000-a handsome capital gain for him, and a bargain for working control of a thriving, big daily. Control of the Enquirer would be a coup for the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star, which tried to buy it before, or for the Scripps-Howard Cincinnati Post. But the purchase, which would give either paper a total of 70% of the city's advertising and circulation, might draw frowns from Government trustbusters. At week's end there were plenty of other possible...