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...American room Catskill Mountains and The Storm by George Inness (1825-1894) were two strong examples of his Corotesque landscapes. An inheritor of the Hudson River School of painters, Swedenborgian Inness received little praise until after his death when critics hailed him a "master of U. S. landscapists." It was otherwise with Winslow Homer (1836-1910) who was acclaimed when he was 19 for a series of lithograph portraits of the Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well...
Like many an Englishman since the days of Drake, Talbot Clifton (1868-1928), found England too small, too safe. Scion of an ancient line (beginning in 1060), and inheritor of great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson...
...only place where a lookout could have hidden was inside a Japanese sentry box. At the very instant when Chang's private train passed under the bridge an electrically wired bomb dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best intentioned young man in the world, he is temperamentally unfitted to be a soldier and, despite painful efforts to break himself of the habit, he is a narcotics addict. Son Chang...
...York curly-haired Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 33, Yale-man, socialite and inheritor of one-fourth of his father's 77-million-dollar fortune, including his great racing stable, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney...
Engaged. Cornelius Vanderbilt ('"Sonny") Whitney, 32, son of the late Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney and inheritor of his racing stable, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Averell Harriman; and Miss Gwladys Crosby Hopkins, beauteous daughter of the late Mark Hopkins Jr. of Boston and Mrs. Stevens Heckscher of Philadelphia, and niece of the Marquise de Polignac of Paris...