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Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
Stanley Burnet Resor, 75, white-haired dean of 20th century advertising, moved from president to board chairman of J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's biggest ad agency (current billings: some $200 million). He will continue as chief executive officer. Into the presidency went Norman H. Strouse, 48, who left a Seattle Post-Intelligencer advertising job to join J.W.T. in 1929. As one of the firm's 95 vice presidents, Strouse in recent years has been in charge of the agency's Detroit office...
...Perhaps the outstanding performance is that of William Otis, as Editor Webb. His dialogue with George, the bridegroom-to-be, over the breakfast table on the wedding morning is a masterpiece of indirection. Except for an occasional overplayed speech, the rest of the cast, which includes John Rand, Robert Resor, and Robert Bastille, all '43, is up to the standard of the principals...
...John Forsdal was lookout on the R. P. Resor, northbound off the Jersey coast. Seeing running lights inshore of the tanker and less than a quarter mile away, the lookout thought it was a fishing boat-but two torpedoes proved it was not. Sailor Forsdal was slammed to the deck and knocked out for a moment, but recovered and went to the windward side of the ship, realizing that the wind would blow the fire the other...
...Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside this wealthy constellation, the large and scattered group of private...