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...noses. They tiptoe. While this procedure is undoubtedly appropriate when the exhibit is very bad, John Sloan, at the Independents' exhibition in Manhattan (TIME, Mar. 24), urged the public to keep their hats on. Now comes Homer St. Gaudens (TIME, May 12), son of Augustus. Said he to newspapermen at the dedication of a new art museum in Houston: "Reassure your public that putting on felt slippers to draw near a picture is unnecessary...
William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, prohibition fanatic: "Before sailing from Manhattan for Europe, I told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy...
...sent for Dean Gay of Harvard and Prof. Canby of Yale; that the Times employed Commissioner Finley rather than some man who had worked on the staff for 25 years; and that the Tribune sent for Stuart P. Sherman. You can count on your fingers the regular newspapermen in New York who are getting $100 per week, a mere pittance in that terrible town...
...great and unflinching martyr who went to his death upholding his opinions. It is the story of a soft martyr, who never actually recanted, but tried to mollify his persecutors by concessions. The manner of this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials...
...Coolidge accepted from Sir Esmé Howard (British Ambassador) an oil portrait of President Harding presented by the Vancouver Sun and the Canadian press to the National Press Club and newspapermen of the U. S. The portrait will hang in the National Press Club in Washington...