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...recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...
What restorations such as that of Williamsburg, Va., or The Cloisters (see p. 16), are to John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Museum of Modern Art is to Mrs. Rockefeller. Her gifts of modern art to the museum have been surpassed only by that of her friend, the late Lillie P. Bliss. Her greatest interest is in U. S. art, traditional and contemporary, and in this A. Conger Goodyear is a fellow soul. Ever since he first broached the idea to the Louvre authorities in 1932, dynamic President Goodyear, a lover of Winslow Homer and Charles Burchfield, has yearned to show...
...Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside this wealthy constellation, the large and scattered group of private collections includes those of gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson of Hollywood, who owns Grant Wood's famed Daughters of Revolution...
Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in his day, was insatiably concerned with orchestral instruments. He studied them all, speculated on their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem...
Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that...