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...needed new equipment (a 15-lb. receiver for the landing beam) and for airline pilots to get practice. It constitutes the magnum opus of Col. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, whose routine resignation was on file last week, and his first aide, Col. Harry Harmon Blee. He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California...
...Harmon Foundation is a philanthropic corporation established by the late William E. Harmon (real estate) in 1922, not only to aid mankind but to impress his children with their social responsibilities by making them permanent and active directors. The Foundation has built 118 playgrounds throughout the country, made 5,000 loans to college students, produced 75 reels of religious motion pictures, established awards for Honor Men in industry, Eagle Scouts, newspaper cartoonists, South Carolina farm wives. For the fifth year last week the Harmon Foundation gave a New York exhibition and distributed prizes for the work of Negro artists...
...needed the money. The $150 Robert C. Ogden prize for the "most outstanding" work went to Sargent Claude Johnson of Berkeley, Calif, for two neo-Mexican colored drawings and a porcelain figure of a praying child with a fine Persian green glaze. Artist Johnson is an old hand at Harmon honors, has won two others...
...first art prize, $400 and a gold medal, in 1926. His employer added $3,000 and sent him abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through the plate glass of a Fifth Avenue florist's window...
...that two students, by cooking their own beef stew in large batches and baking their own bread, were feeding themselves for $3 a month apiece. Northwestern University, Wellesley, Smith. Mount Holyoke and M. I. T. have well-established houses. In a recent survey of college co-operatives by the Harmon Foundation. 113 out of 451 institutions replying had some such enterprise...