Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compared with the sloppy and insensitive draftsmanship that plagues much of modern art fully a third of the pictures on display last week in Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library seemed minor masterpieces. Yet they were done mainly for pleasure, to while away an hour in the open, or as preliminary sketches for more ambitious work. Entitled "Landscape Drawings and Watercolors from Bruegel to Cezanne," the exhibition spans four little centuries of landscape art with 94 delicate little pictures...
...write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found time to write such well-known books as Only Yesterday, The Great Pierpont Morgan, and The Big Change. Last week, at 62, Writer-Editor Allen's second ambition triumphed over his first. He announced his resignation as editor of Harper's Magazine (although he will continue as an adviser and board member) to devote more time to writing...
CHARLES RUFFIN HOOK JR., 38, vice president in charge of personnel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., to be Deputy Postmaster General. Son of a wealthy Ohio industrialist (now board chairman of Armco Steel Corp.), handsome Charlie Hook married a Morgan heiress, is a popular and ornamental member of Cleveland society...
Norman Bruck, freshman sprinter, got off to a bad start in his semi-final heat in the 50 yard dash, losing to Arthur Bragg of Morgan State, who went on to win the event. Bruck won his qualifying heat in 5.6, two tenths of a second off Bragg's time and the meet record...
...Morgan was once asked by a friend: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" Boomed the great J.P.: "Sir, if you have to know how much it costs, you shouldn't own one." Last week, as the 43rd annual Motor Boat Show opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, it was evident that Morgan's rule of thumb no longer applied. In the biggest show in history, 248 exhibitors displayed boats for every pocketbook-from $39.95 for a shrimp boat to $72,700 for a cabin cruiser...