Word: selectman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Gardner, Mass., Harrison Cady has had a busy and remunerative career. His father was Town Selectman and prosperous proprietor of the general store, who studied trees and animals with his son, encouraged his early sketches. When that loquacious African explorer, the late Paul Belloni du Chaillu, went to Gardner to lecture* young Harrison Cady decorated his poster in the store window with a fine display of lions, elephants, and gorillas. Explorer du Chaillu was delighted, and at the age of 17 Harrison Cady arrived in New York to be an artist. He had an easy success. He illustrated...
...hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store, of being welcomed by First Selectman Oscar D. Tuthill and a committee of borough officials...