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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical example of this was Portrait (see cut) by 9-year-old Rudy Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...
Died. James Howell Post, 78, who rose from a $3-per-week office boy to be chairman of the board of a $26,000,000 industry. National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey; after a short illness; in Brooklyn, N...
...Martha N. Brookings, legislative representative of the W. C. T. U., cried in horror: "The book does not refer to alcohol as a poison." Senator Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned...
...Journalists George and Gilbert Seldes, onetime Pennsylvania Congressman Benjamin Colder, Dean Jacob Goodale Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture (New Brunswick, N. J.), Judge Jacob Panken of Manhattan, Judge Theodore Rosen of Philadelphia, Judge Joseph B. Perskie of New Jersey's supreme court- all were once Jewish farm boys...
Died. George Foster Peabody, 85, philanthropist and educator, trustee of Warm Springs Foundation, owner of "Yaddo," retreat for artists & authors at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; of heart disease in Warm Springs, Ga. In 25 years with Manhattan's Spencer Trask & Co. he built up a huge fortune. Said he: "But when I came to see in 1906 that the money which I had amassed was the work of others, I then and there decided to retire from business and become my own executor, to administer for the people that which rightfully belonged to them...