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...plenty of friends of just the right kind. It ranked second to Satevepost in ads, had sister editions in Paris, London and Buenos Aires. It also had a sophisticated brother, Vanity Fair, the editing of which Condé Nast turned over to Frank Crowninshield, the town's wittiest connoisseur of art and letters. They were a team. Nast built a 30-acre printing plant at Greenwich, Conn. In the boom he also went into the stock-market.* And just when he was ready to retire, he went broke. His last decade showed his qualities of honest pride and courage...
...Chinese last week was doing his quiet bit to enlighten Manhattanites on a subject of great current interest to China-India. C. T. Loo, noted dealer and connoisseur, after a quarter-century of patient collecting, opened a display of "The Sculpture of Greater India." The people who went to contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha...
...lived, a retired French customs inspector named Henri Rousseau, had his biggest U.S. exhibition ever, at the Chicago Art Institute last fortnight. In Manhattan, 30 men & women who painted for fun in their spare time will have their works elaborately hung this week at the Marie Harriman Gallery. A connoisseur of amateur painting named Sidney Janis has written a solemn 236-page book about them.* All these amateurs had one thing in common: they had learned painting the hard way, by laboriously teaching themselves...
...distinguished scholar, after dining with him at Oxford a few years ago, happily described this aspect of his character when he called him "a connoisseur of books and of life."The Harvard Lampoon--Oct. 26, 1935"Last one out is a brazen-faced varlet...
...apparently wide range of interests of the average New York Times book-reporter.) "Reading I've Liker" is an unpretentious collection which represents various aspects of that taste. The book does include, for example, the whole of James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" (which any Thurber-connoisseur will tell you is the master's chef-d'ocuvre), stories by Maugham, Beerbohm, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, excerpts from Eve Curie and Fowler's "Modern English Usage," and Judge Woolsey's decision lifting the ban on "Ulysses...