Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine Arts last week. "You are opening this book," the exhibition catalogue grandly announces, "because John Marin was a great artist." Few self-appointed priests of art would disagree with the judgment, particularly in view of the fact that the word great has become considerably devalued by excessive use. Mann, who died less than two years ago, at 82, is generally ranked with Winslow Homer as a painter of the nation's land and seascapes...
...students love it. Whether the popularity of Slavic 155 can be attributed to the fiendish length of the reading assignments (second largest in the Colleges, next to Professor Levin's "Proust, Joyce and Mann"), to the accrbic brilliance of the instructor, or simply to the fascination of the reading itself, there is no doubt that Poggioli is one of the most unorthodox lecturers around. His students are attracted to him as inevitably as he is to wisecracks. And while he always lectures with a pipe in his teeth, he does not always notice that it is sometimes upside down...
...Rubinstein continued his rascally ways, and his ill-gotten fortune grew. He was sued or charged with everything from swindling to a Mann Act violation (with a blonde on a Caribbean cruise). He hired the best available legal talent, e.g., Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon, and paid double fees when he was acquitted. Sometimes, his friendship proved embarrassing: in 1943 the nomination of Ed Flynn, the late Democratic boss of the Bronx, to be Minister to Australia, was withdrawn after his legal associations with Rubinstein were revealed in the Senate...
...turned to finance. In three years he established three publishing firms, and an investment company. He had no trouble raising money. Was he not the son of Major Reginald Baker, well known as a cinema magnate and managing director of Baling Studios? Wealthy Sir Bernard Docker and Sir John Mann contributed financial backing, Viscount Astor and Major Henry Legge-Bourke, M.P., were glad to serve on his board of directors. Soon Peter had 18 companies, ranging from Edinburgh to London...
...last year banks began to balk. When they did, Peter suddenly produced "bills of exchange'' (drafts) apparently guaranteed, by such sterling-solid men as Docker and Mann. When one bank refused to give him further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent...