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Monologist Howe, who writes her own skits, comes by her penetrating literary manner legitimately. Daughter of a Harvard Overseer, sister of Editor Quincy Howe of The Living Age, she tried one year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...
...Carl Anderson wanted to learn to draw. Because the only school he could find that specifically advertised courses in pen-&-ink work was the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, he went there. His first job was on the defunct Philadelphia Times at $12 a week. Later a bright young editor named Brisbane hired him for Pulitzer's New York World, where he did a Sunday page about "The Filipino & The Chick." When Hearst, the newcomer, began raiding Pulitzer's staff, Anderson joined the parade to higher wages, joined Hearst's Journal where he drew "Raffles & Bunny...
Hupmobile began the year with a radically aerodynamic model and a brand new president, William J. McAneeny, onetime head of Hudson. Just before Hupp's Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews hired him, Mr. McAneeny gained Detroit's gratitude by securing waivers from the big depositors in defunct First National Bank, thus permitting a 100% payoff to all accounts of $300 or less. Most distinctive feature of the new Hupmobile is its headlights, which, while a part of the body, are carried in outline straight back into the cowl...
...Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair, Bonner...
With a considerable number of men from the defunct Junior Varsity, in addition to the regular enthusiasts, expected to report. House basketball holds its first turnout of the season at 4 o'clock this afternoon under the eye of Coach Joseph M. Hill 2L, a graduate of Colgate...