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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This little drama occurred during the Oligocene Period, some 30,000,000 years ago, in the Baltic region. Last week the shells of the spider (Oonopidae) and the bark louse (Psocidae), beautifully preserved in the amber, were put on display at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
...common way for an art gallery to make a splash is to put on a "subject exhibition." These range from stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing...
...Paris edition. Hills asked Munsey to let him run the Paris Herald and got, with the job, Munsey's blunt opinion that "there is no need of a first-class newspaperman on the Herald." Laurence Hills, then 40, remade the paper nevertheless. He threw out the French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills wanted to make the Herald an international paper, and did, but at the same time it remained a small-town sheet, written by small-town...
...could spend half their time in the bistro on the corner or playing cards on the copy desk. The Herald was published in an old building in the Rue du Louvre, adequately covered by insurance, and it was considered all right to light fires in the wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures on the staff were Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French wouldn't like and correcting the more objectionable misspellings of the native composing room crew); Sportswriter "Sparrow" Robertson...
Husky John Brookes taught school in Washington for six years to put himself through George Washington University, left in 1913 with a gridiron reputation, an M. A. and LL.B. cum laude. Going to Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp...