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...made it a one-man airline, and he made it pay. Captain Eddie-as he is known around the Eastern system-flew 200,000 miles during his first year as president. He not only poked his nose into every airplane, every ticket office, every hangar and every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture...
...first one-man show, held in Paris when he was 22, was a sellout. By 1908, bored with his success as a clever conventional painter, he began experimenting. He joined the Cubists and Futurists, daubed brightly colored abstractions...
...diffident Matthew Smith screwed up his courage, asked Jacob Epstein for an invitation to the London Group Exhibition where, at 36, he showed his first picture. Doubting Matthew ("I wanted to be sure I had something to say") waited ten more years before he had his first one-man show. By then his furnace reds, bonfire oranges and gas-jet blues had warmed not only Sculptor Epstein but a lot of British painters as well. When Portraitist Augustus John was asked, "Who are the three greatest British artists?" he answered, "Well, there's Matthew Smith, and there...
Once he put them on view, Smith's landscapes, his luscious nudes lounging against brilliant pillows, his masterful floral pieces quickly earned him a reputation as England's foremost colorist. In his one-man show last year he sold ?10,000 worth of pictures in the first two days...
When the 8,500-ton German freighter Hermod docked at Baltimore last week, a mustached newsman who looks more like a diplomat than a reporter was on hand to greet captain & crew in impeccable German. The one-man reception committee for the first German ship to visit the U.S^ since 1941 was Detlev Friedrich Achaz, Reichsgraf und Graf von der Schulenburg, 40, a newcomer to the U.S. himself. He is the first fully accredited German correspondent in the U.S. since Pearl Harbor. Reporter Schulenburg, already "Schuley" to fellow correspondents, is stationed in Washington and represents Deutsche Press Agentur, biggest news...