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Most startling achievement that FORTUNE records: that throughout ten years of depression the U. S. citizen's power to consume has increased more rapidly than ever before in history. Charts prepared by rotund little Richard Buckminster Fuller, creator of the Dymaxion House and Dymaxion car, establish that, in relation to each citizen in the rest of the world, the U. S. citizen is rich in the forces that developing technology has potentially made available, so rich that "the important fact is not that an old era has passed but that a new era has been born...
...Today, rotund, greying, 49-year-old Lauritz Melchior, the best Heldentenor of them all, is content to rest on his laurels. The father of two grown children (by his first wife, Danish-born Inger Nathansen, who died in 1927), he occasionally frets about 22-year-old Son Ib's cinema ambitions in Hollywood, keeps 19-year-old Daughter Birte hard at her business-school courses in Copenhagen. Though he diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera...
...Amiable, rotund Francis Taylor is one of the young directors now engaged in making U. S. museums look alive.* He believes that a museum's function, like Gaul, is divided into three parts : acquiring art, luring people in to see it, teaching them to make it part of their daily lives. The average American sees the inside of an art museum only once in five years. By upping attendance from 37,000 to 145,000 a year, Director Taylor made a monkey of this average at Worcester. A similar opportunity awaits him at the Metropolitan, where attendance has slumped...
...year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
...Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...