Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last June Admiral Pratt was retired and Admiral William Harrison Standley succeeded him as Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, May 8). With a President in the White House friendly to the Navy Admiral Standley was a happy man last week because, at least on paper, the U. S. fleet was again headed back to its old position of "second...
...landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs. But for all its felicity of line one fact alone lifted this exhibition into prominence. It was the work of Harrison Cady, known to millions of children as the Peter Rabbit Man (he has made some 7,000 drawings of Peter), the indefatigable illustrator of the syndicated nature stories of Thornton W. Burgess...
Born in Gardner, Mass., Harrison Cady has had a busy and remunerative career. His father was Town Selectman and prosperous proprietor of the general store, who studied trees and animals with his son, encouraged his early sketches. When that loquacious African explorer, the late Paul Belloni du Chaillu, went to Gardner to lecture* young Harrison Cady decorated his poster in the store window with a fine display of lions, elephants, and gorillas. Explorer du Chaillu was delighted, and at the age of 17 Harrison Cady arrived in New York to be an artist. He had an easy success. He illustrated...
...Died. Harrison Fisher. 56, magazine cover artist; after long illness; in a Manhattan hospital. Brooklyn-born, he joined the San Francisco Call, retouched photographs, made lifelike portraits of corpses in the morgue. By 1910 he had started the "Harrison Fisher Girl'' on her long and decorous magazine-cover career. He never married, said he saw too much of women in his work...
...with chieftains in the wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South America he encountered plenty of wild characters. Some of them: the Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived in a vacant lot and ate garbage, a onetime chartered accountant who had left...