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...Jean (Hans) Arp once outlined his credo. To save man from death by mechanization, Arp for over half a century has made the subconscious and irrational his ally, has turned out objects that profess to explain the metaphysics of the mustache, made eggs, string and shirt fronts serve the purpose of art. In so doing he has earned for himself a reputation as "a one-man laboratory for the discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strange Fruit | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Part II was Paul Cornell Co. of Man-hattan,* founded by Mr. Cornell when he set up in business on his own account in 1926. Paul Lincoln Cornell, 37, was one of eleven children of a poor Methodist minister in Fond du Lac, Wis. He worked for B. F. Goodrich Co.. went to War, got into advertising. One product of his War service is that he is already anonymously preserved for posterity in marble; as the central figure of New York's memorial to its 107th Regiment, he charges gallantly into Fifth Avenue at 66th Street. No believer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Agencies for Old | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...economic thinking in this country is now being done by Otto H. Kahn." He sits on the board of directors of the Equitable Trust; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mainly he is known for his patronage of the arts?principally the Metropolitan Opera. Last year he endowed the New Playwrights Theatre (Man-hattan). In 1896, he married Addie Wolff, daughter of Abraham Wolff of Manhattan (Kuhn, Loeb 'partner). Roger Kahn spells his middle name Wolfe. There are four children in all?two sons and two daughters. Mrs. John C. O. Marriott, Margaret, Gilbert Wolff, Roger Wolff (Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Able Mr. Kahn | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...ridiculously exaggerated illustration of the cane rush held at the Man-hattan Grounds appeared in last week's issue of the Police Gazette, under the heading, "Columbia youngsters vindicate their right to carry canes." - Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/16/1885 | See Source »

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