Word: philadelphian
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...When Philadelphian Joseph E. Widener announced that his late father's famed art collection would go to Washington's new National Gallery, disinherited Philadelphia museum folk kept a disappointed silence, but last week, seeing a chance that Widener might have to change his mind, they howled...
Music-serious music-is a profession which, to the helpless regret of music lovers as well as musicians, pays out in chicken feed. Thirty-one-year-old Paul Nordoff, angular, wirehaired, blond Philadelphian, has been better heeled than most young composers. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos...
...crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
...manage this vast registration, Solicitor General Francis Biddle summoned a fellow Philadelphian, Earl Grant Harrison, 41. Mr. Harrison left a wife, three children and a lucrative law practice to help his Government, expects to wind up his job in six months. He anticipates little trouble with recalcitrants, but, just in case, he dropped the reminder that failure to register carries a $1,000 fine and six months in jail...
...weary-looking, blueblooded Philadelphian, Fitz Eugene Newbold, partner in the 96-year-old house of W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., filed a registration statement with SEC three weeks ago, was preparing this week to sell $500,000 of stock to lease the mine from its owners, Philadelphians William and Mary Lord Sexton. Terms of the lease: $20,241 cash, at least $10,000 a year plus 10% of the gross. Trusting chiefly to the mine's great record, the Newbold syndicate has taken no new samples at New Almaden. It underlined the words "very speculative...