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...with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor...
...Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, N. Y., will open in September a new department of operatic training. The plan includes eventual formation of a company of students to produce scenes from opera in the Eastman Theatre...
...Eastman Kodak Company also has begun the payment of $1,760,000 as "wage dividends" to its 15,000 employees, in addition to the payment of $4,500,000 dividends to common stockholders. The amount of the "wage dividend " paid each year by the Kodak Company depends upon the extra dividends paid on its common stock. This year the wage dividend amounts to 13% of the annual wages of employees of five or more years' standing...
Again in the shot put, a record escaped breaking by a small margin. Eastman heaved the 16-pound ball 46 feet 9 1-2 inches, only 1-2 inch short of the College mark established in 1907 by Mr. Henry Le Moyne '07. Lawler of the B. A. A., who was given a handicap of 1 foot 2 inches, had a total of 46 feet 1 1-2 inches...
...open handicap race tomorrow directly after the baseball game with Yale, Joie Ray will make his second attempt in the Stadium to break the world's record for the mile distance. At the same time Eastman will try to better the College mark in the shot put, which now stands at 46 feet 10 inches, and there will probably be several trial races for the University men who will go on the trip to England...