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In your article concerning the Joslyn Art Museum at Omaha you describe its donor, Mrs. Sarah Selleck Joslyn, as eccentric and sometimes known as the "Corn Belt's" Hetty Green (TIME, Jan. 11). Several years ago Mrs. Joslyn was voted Omaha's most useful citizen by the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

She-Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

The film shows a Harriet Breen who trades shrewdly in wheat and railroads, endeavors to outmanipulate a wheat-&-rail speculator who has ruined her husband. Like Hetty Green, she is the Richest Woman in the World, hates lawyers, has a son and daughter whom she treats severely. As Hetty Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Like most cinemas dealing with finance, this one reveals no great understanding of Wall Street methods, maintains an unnecessarily pop-eyed attitude toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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