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...drawing teacher encouraged him to continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his prot??gés. "It isn't any fault of yours." Ronald Joseph has stayed with the Fritz class for six years. He was the first to be given a special section in the Metropolitan. So far his success has not spoiled him. He says: "I have a fifty-fifty chance of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Industrial Ingredient | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, prot??gé of Andrew Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tombstone | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Brother Pierre. A senior and most revered du Pont is Pierre Samuel du Pont?broad, thick chin; gleaming forehead; ready smile. He is a Wet. About six months ago he took leave of absence to join his prot??geé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: G. M. C.'s Chair | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...with peculiar suddenness, de la Huerta rocked the revolutionary cradle of Mexico?the triumvirate was shattered; and, in its ruins, de la Huerta found his political grave. Only one man was left to succeed Obregon; nor did Obregon conceal his satisfaction; for the man was Calles, his friend, his prot??gé, his faithful comrade-in-arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Mexico | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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