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...With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects...
David Merriwether Milton, Manhattan lawyer, made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse...
Miss Keller likes Playwright Eugene Brieux and his "brood of heresies," calls Bernard Shaw the "gadfly of the absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...
...Branch, Gaynor, l.g. r.g., Hageman, Esterly, Waters Eastman, Kimball, c. C., Hallowell, Almy Blumenthal, Miller, r.g. l.g., Harter Mudge, Xanthacky, r.t. l.t., Bancroft, Esterly Connelly, Chapman, Freeman, r.e. l.e., Barton, Lovett Rollins, Donovan, q.b. q.b., Wolcott, Coburn Wilson, Degasis, l.h.b. r.h.b., Leonard, Feins Schollenberger, Smart, r.h.b. l.h.b., Scott, Thorndike, Davison Sampson, f.b. f.b., Hardy, Scott...
...could bring order out of the chaos of an importing and exporting house which became Lamont, Corliss & Co. (agents for Cream of Wheat, Rainbow Dye, Pond's Extract, O'Sullivan's, Peter's Chocolate), of which he is now chairman. It is why the late Henry P. Davison called him, in 1903, to be secretary-treasurer of the Bankers Trust (Lament: "All my business life I have been borrowing money. I don't know how to loan it." Davison: "That's why we want you. We want a man who knows how the borrower feels and looks."); why George...