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...Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
Solidly backed by his vice-chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
Stumping in Scranton, Pa. last week, Ambassador to Poland John Cudahy charged the bulk of the press with suppressing news favorable to the New Deal, asserted that "85% of the newspapers north of the Mason & Dixon line are controlled by supporters of the Republican Party...
...usual, professional art critics whose annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote...
Died. Thomas Jefferson Foster, 93, founder of the International Correspondence Schools ("We Teach the World") ; in Scranton...