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...national tradition. But there are not many women whose earned income exceeds $10,000 a year. Here and there one finds a woman capitalist like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron of the arts and sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot...
...companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern S. S. Co., and the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines carried flags at half mast in tribute to him as Chairman of Board of Directors; so did the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. (woolens), of which he was a trustee. Patron of art and education, he was also onetime vice president of the trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...from Ellis Island to the Golden Gate," that as little as 22% of outgoing mail arrives at the Nashville Post Office after 6 p. m.* The Christmas deluge was spread out and handled efficiently, partly because of Dr. O'Callaghan's plea last month: "My Dear Postal Patron: "CHRISTMAS TO THE POST-OFFICE is not a mere tempest in a tumbler of water, but it is an ambitious ocean of cards and parcels, a veritable whirlwind, and while riding 'THIS WHIRLWIND,' we must 'DIRECT THE STORM.' "WILL YOU BE OUR RAINBOW ? By shopping early...
...casts unwarranted suspicion upon the exploit of honest Albert Snook. Let Mr. Box turn to p. 14 of TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, and read how Albert Snook won not "an antique" but "The Chess Game," a painting by John Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard by Mrs. Snook in Aurora...
Cleaning windows is poor training for painting landscapes, even river scenes. Scrubbing floors, poking up stairs which smell of last night's supper, dusting closets, beating carpetscause he had talent. A black man with talent might find a patron, but only because he was black. Palmer Hayden, Negro, found no patron. He washed windows for a living, painted scenes that he rememberednished pictures and two sketches, they depicted the Holy Land he is held, pretending to be an artist? The critics may have been right. Mr. Cornwall's work has a facility that keeps it from being important. He gets...