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...original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides until called to Big Steel. Now prematurely white-haired, handsome Ed Stettinius is genial, excessively energetic...
Hispanic Museum contains valued Velazquez, Murillos, Zurbarans and a room full of gaudy murals by Joaquin Soralla, besides numerous sculptures by the Museum's patron, Mrs. Anna Hyatt (Archer M.) Huntington...
...Bailey Aldrich, an organ recital, more speeches by amiable Critic William Lyon Phelps and ruby-nosed retired Editor Robert ("Droch") Bridges of Scribner's Magazine. Then one and all adjourned to view a collection of 170 sculptures by the only ; female sculptor in the Academy, capable, unassuming Anna Hyatt Huntmgton...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., whose father died in 1932 leaving $2,297,000, went from M. I. T. to Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., in which the Senior Sloan had a large interest. His first job had to do with manufacturing billiard balls, then an important Hyatt product. With the development of automobile roller bearings which supplanted billiard balls, the small, struggling Hyatt became large & rich. In 1916 Hyatt was taken over by William Crapo Durant, whose General Motors dream included motorcar accessories as well as motorcars. In 1920 Mr. Durant was out of General Motors, the du Ponts were...