Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise Bogan; Biographer Matthew Josephson; Novelists Glenway Wescott. Leonard Ehrlich: Composer Paul Nordoff; Economists Henry Schultz and Charles Frederick Roos; historians, physicists, chemists, biologists...
...interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...
...Federal grand jury in Chicago last week indicted 19 officials of the bankrupt Insull holding company, Corporation Securities Co., for using the mails to defraud. Among those indicted (on 25 counts) : The Insulls, Samuel, Martin John and Samuel Jr., Edward J. Doyle, president of Commonwealth Edison Co., Harold Leonard Stuart, head of Insull bankers Halsey, Stuart & Co., Stanley Field, board chairman of Chicago's big Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust...
Major Garey went to work for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cultivated his farm, played with his seven children, pondered pedagogy. Last week he announced that next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired...
Professor Morse's team will be composed of: Lester Arnow '34, E. M. Cook '35. J. B. Duffy '35, H. C. Epstein '34, J. P. Farquhar '35, A. O. Lindstrum '35, Leonard Raum '35, H. E. Robbins '35, and H. P. Sheen...