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...wish I felt at liberty to name the single family of many members, with separate homes whose early purchases bridged the narrow margin between success and failure." Last week his son, rotund Robert Macbeth, admitted that they were the Pratts of Long Island. Other important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...cartoons by persons who take advantage of the Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda. Critics noted that the founders of modernism are already sufficiently venerable to have direct copyists. Director Warren Wheelock produced a solid canvas of "Men Working'' in precisely the mood and manner of rotund Diego Rivera. Artist Dmitry Wiener exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that...
Many a good son owes his job to the influence of a potent father and little is said about it. But last week Inquisitor Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating New York's municipal government had a good deal to say because rotund old John H. (for "Success") McCooey, Brooklyn's Democratic boss, had tried to get a good job for his rotund young John Jr. Inquisitor Seabury was interested deeply because the job was a seat on the New York Supreme Court...
Shrewd, humble, honest and prodigiously rotund, Wilbert Robinson has been manager of the Brooklyn Baseball team, named for him "the Robins," since 1913. Before that, as catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, most celebrated team in baseball history, he once bit off an injured thumb so he could finish a game. Last week, the directors of the Brooklyn Club, possibly the most valuable property in the National League, decided they needed a new manager, selected one Maximillian Carnarius ("Max Carey"), onetime Pittsburgh outfielder...
Elected board chairman was the largest man present, rotund George McClelland Reynolds of Chicago. Iowa-born 66 years ago, he is in his Sist year of banking. With his brother Arthur he built up the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust to fourth largest in the U. S., biggest outside New York. Famed as merger masters, the Brothers Reynolds accomplished their last coup in 1929 when their bank absorbed Illinois Merchants Trust Co., onetime stronghold of Ernest Hamill and John J. Mitchell...