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Whatever its actions in the past, the department now appears only too happy to divest itself of Mr. Feininger's courses. And, presumably, it has found in the Carpenter Visual Arts Center the proper closet for these discarded classes--even though the full faculty has officially recorded its disapproval of a plan to create a "Division of Studio Arts" at the Center that would be able to offer courses in painting, sculpture, architectural drawing, and even acting. (This idea, incidentally, can be traced to the 1955 Brown Report on the Visual Arts which first planted the idea of building...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...
...Moving out of his father's shadow, Gilbert W. Humphrey, 45, president of Cleveland's M. A. Hanna and son of former Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, announced that Hanna plans to divest itself of operating control of its vast coal, iron ore, and shipping interests to set up as a closed-end investment company. Board chairman of the reorganized firm, which will have assets of $500 million and a liquid working capital of $60 million to spend on diversifying its investments: "Bud" Humphrey...
...only "the very rich or very foolish," Vaughan went into advertising during the Depression. After the war, borrowing from the cubists, Vaughan extracted and refined his forms "out of the vast ore" of his visual experience. He began painting muted-palette manscapes-landscapes chockablock with men. "I try to divest my figures of any particular identity of purpose or recognizable activity and retain only their essential humanity," he says...
Convinced that their 44-year-old marriage involved a "tendency'' toward monopoly, the U.S. Supreme Court last week forced a divorce upon two of the nation's industrial giants. In a 4-to-3 decision, the court directed E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to divest itself within ten years of its 63 million shares of General Motors stock, worth about $2.8 billion at current market prices. The decision was the climax of a twelve-year legal struggle. A lower court had earlier ruled that Du Pont could hold onto its G.M. shares provided it gave...