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A small but sternly independent preparatory school is Gunnery, which has perched in the Berkshires near Washington, Conn. since 1850. Founded by an abolitionist named Frederick William Gunn, Gunnery still warns parents that "luxury, waste, and soft living are contrary to the spirit of the school," although such rich boys...
Matrimony Pfd. (adapted by James Forbes and Grace George from the French of Louis Verneuil; William A. Brady, producer) is a diverting exercise in marital and premarital geometry, involving nothing so elementary as the triangle. Linda Lessing (Miss George) is an aging, easy-going lady who feels it is time...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate...
The past year must also have set something of a record for the number of deaths among insurance presidents. Many insurance personnel changes occurred for other reasons. Leroy A. Lincoln violated a company up-from-office-boy tradition by stepping into the presidency of Metropolitan Life, world's biggest...
The 97 engravings and woodcuts in this exhibition are from the collection of Mr. Lessing Rosenwald. They will be on view until Thursday. February 27.