Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury was composed of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr. and three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
Besides playing host to Winston Churchill and other visiting notables last week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attended to some personal business: it inaugurated a new president, James Rhyne Killian Jr...
...Garden and Home (now B. H. & G.). At his death in 1928, Publisher Meredith (who had been Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture) left a gilt-edged business to his son-in-law, President Fred Bohen, now 53, and to his son, Vice President and Treasurer E. T. Meredith Jr...
...decided it was time for a visit of homage to Moscow. He went there in 1927, and seemed to enjoy himself hugely. He stood for three icy hours on one occasion sketching a parade in the Red Square, later sold 45 watercolors of it to Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. He also met and sketched Stalin. He was in one of his pro-Stalin moods, and he felt moved and honored. Later, in one of his unpredictable flipflops, he changed his mind, wrote sarcastically (in Esquire...
...much does it cost U.S. taxpayers to subsidize U.S. airlines? Nobody knows for sure, but last week Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., chairman of CAB, told the New York City Bar Association that CAB soon hopes to find out. CAB expects to break down the Government payments to airlines into outright subsidies and the amount airlines have earned carrying the mail...