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...Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait...
...public servants had been completely changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward "making private business a profession." Under the deanship of rotund, bald, energetic Wallace Brett Donham, Harvard's Business School became in the 1920'$ big and proud and potent. Depression sobered the Business School. Depression, too, brought the New Deal and the New Deal created a host of new opportunities. Last week Harvard's President James Bryant Conant...
...Sibelius now working on his Eighth Symphony is bald, rotund, 68. He lives in a rambling two-story house in Jarvenpaa, 20 miles from Helsingfors. When U.S. tourists visit him he will tell them that he was never a prodigy, that he dislikes Wagner and physical exercise, loves Johann Strauss waltzes, once taught briefly at the New England Conservatory in Boston-and that no visitors are admitted to the second-floor studio where he does all his work...
Pendergast- One of the best machines in the U. S. is that well-oiled engine with which Thomas Joseph Pendergast rules the destinies of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. Last August this rotund boss got the Democratic nomination for Missouri's seat in the U. S. Senate for one of his boys, County Judge Harry S. Truman. His only obstacle in putting Harry in the Senate was the way stand-pat Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre...
Stepping out on the White House steps after a morning conference with the President, Ohio's rotund Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, a conservative member of the Banking & Currency Committee, told the Press: "We discussed further devaluation of the dollar. I don't think it is necessary now, but it may be in time and I am not unalterably opposed to it.'' He reminded reporters that an Act of Congress would be required to authorize the President to reduce the dollar's gold content below the 50% limit set last year. "I think it might help...