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...Paris Salon was old stuff, the Left Bank Galerie de Bac was fresh as a daisy. Its show sent critics scrambling for superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...
Another Stieglitz protégé was Max Weber, whose first, fine-chopped abstractions, like Chinese Restaurant, were harder to take than the India-rubber rabbis he paints now. The New York Times art critics are more sympathetic to him today than was the Timesman who sputtered in 1911: "It is difficult to write of these atrocities with moderation...
Died. George Zerdin Medalie, 62, shorttime associate judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protégé Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance...
...hard knock. After crowding eight years of public school into three, he cleaned a poolroom to work his way through City College. A Scottish Fabian, Thomas Davidson, woke Cohen to an interest in philosophy; as a scholarship student at Harvard, where he roomed with Felix Frankfurter, he became a protěgé of William James. Then came what Cohen refers to as "dark and weary years ... in the valley of humiliation." As a poorly paid mathematics teacher at City College, he barely made ends meet, vainly sought transfer to the philosophy department...
...first Benton despaired of ever teaching his protégé anything about copy writing. But four years later they had enough skill, money ($16,000) and mutual confidence to start their own firm of Benton & Bowles...