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...easy. Studying painting at various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
...Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...
...interviewer who asked him what he thought of Merion, Craig Wood gave an airy definition: "A mashie-niblick course." On his second round, he was disqualified for playing the wrong ball, failing to take a two stroke penalty when he found the right...
...haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction of being both a Triangle Club chorus girl and a varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college he went into insurance brokerage in Philadelphia, settled in Ithan on the Main Line. He joined Merion Cricket and Union League clubs, raised dogs as a hobby. By March 1933 Mr. Goff had acquired 24 assorted dogs and lost considerable money in a flyer in the refractory business. ''How do you keep your Great Danes' coats so glossy?" a friend asked him. Mr. Goff...
...Denston's 82-year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize...