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...This year's Tom Harmon is better than last year's. Toughened by a summer of lifeguarding the municipal beach of his home town, Gary, Ind. (and punting up & down the sand for at least an hour a day), Senior Harmon has been a one-man gang. Practically singlehanded, he mowed down California, Michigan State and Harvard, scoring a total of 69 points. It annoyed Illinois last year to hear him ballyhooed as a "second Red Grange." But now he was called "greater than Grange," "greater than Willie Heston" "greater than Jim Thorpe." Wags dubbed Michigan "Thomas Harmon...
...Barnes Foundation is a one-man show founded and run by Albert Coombs Barnes, who invented Argyrol, made millions from his invention and in 1922, aged 49, started his school. Mr. Barnes endowed his Foundation with $6,000,000, gathered one of the world's most impressive collections of Cezannes, Renoirs, Picassos, Matisses. A salty and original character, Albert Barnes worked his way through University of Pennsylvania Medical School by playing semi-pro baseball, studied at Heidelberg. Now he teaches appreciation of the fine arts to 150 students, whom he selects with great care, lectures to explosively. Around...
Last week, at Manhattan's new little Galerie St. Etienne, Anna Moses had her first one-man show. It consisted of 35-odd paintings, nearly her whole output, still primly mounted in the old looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...
Three months ago, New York City's bouncing little Mayor Fiorello Henry ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declared a one-man war on indecent magazines, sat himself down and wrote a warning letter to 1,300 metropolitan newsdealers. Said he: "The Mayor has power of sewage disposal, and if necessary I will get rid of these dirty magazines as filth...
...That Harvard team hits hard--they were smacking in there all the time," commented Michigan's one-man team, Tom Harmon, as he came dripping out of the shower after Saturday's contest...