Word: pottered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Poor has advanced since the time several years ago when he gave up painting, as he thought for good, to retire to the country, build his own home, and mold, fire and glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view in a one-man show in Manhattan's Rehn Galleries last week where landscapes, still lifes, and in particular a figure study entitled "The Pink Tablecloth" won high hosannas...
...Last week Dr. Hugh Potter Baker, 55, was inaugurated as president of Massachusetts State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...
...retired railroad man, philanthropist, animal lover; when he was fired on from ambush while riding with two companions (both of whom were wounded), on the 1,200-acre estate near Wuynesville, N. C. which has been his summer home for 25 years. Few hours later a mountaineer named Dewey Potter, who had been fined for poaching on the Price estate, and two others surrendered to peace officers. Before his retirement last year. Thomas Price was secretary of Union Pacific R. R., secretary or director of 18 other roads and utilities, mostly Union Pacific subsidiaries. Died. Arthur Seligman, 60, Governor...
...York brokerage firm of Munds, Winslow & Potter employed until recently a ruddy, sturdy, white-haired man, past 65, who was in his way unique among salaried customers' men. He was George Mallory Pynchon, until two years ago the self-made head of Pynchon & Co which was a member of 16 exchanges, had eleven branches, was the oldest and largest