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...Arthur Garfield Dove owed his given names to the Republican presidential ticket* of 1880, the year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneer Abstractionist | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...James Garfield, who won the election only to be mortally wounded 120 days after his inauguration, and Chester Arthur, who as Vice President succeeded Garfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneer Abstractionist | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Baxter had another problem in the fondness of little (now 1,200 men) Williams for small classes and intimate seminars. That tradition made the college the subject of one of U.S. education's most endlessly quoted remarks. Speaking about Williams President Mark Hopkins, U.S. President James A. Garfield, Williams '56 (who was assassinated on his way to a Williams commencement), supposedly said that "the ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.'' In a day of academic mass production, the notion was bound to cost Williams plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Breed | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...GARFIELD ALBEE DREW

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Small Investor's Boswell | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Boswell of the small investor is Garfield Albee Drew, a controversial Boston chartist. He tries to call turns in the stock market by keeping careful tab on the odd-lotter-generally the small investor who buys and sells in lots of less than 100 shares. Mustachioed "Jeff" Drew (5 ft. 6 in. and 57), has an unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Small Investor's Boswell | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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