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...friend Winsor B. French, 25, cofounders. Publisher White is the polo-playing scion of the family which founded The White Co. Director French is a vivacious adman, versifier, socialite. For excellence of photography and art, credit is given to a young Clevelander, Jerome Brainerd Zerbe Jr., himself an able sketcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Cleveland Magazine | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...London Illustrated News does. I think you've done not badly, in fact very well on the two occasions of the Supreme Court and the ZRS-4 Ring-Laying. But why not rely, as does the Illustrated News, on the camera? The day of the spot news sketcher has passed I'm sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: John Sargent | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...advantageous to single out parellels, that the incipiently great among us may be recognized. First, there is the apathetic student who carves monograms in Sever while the lecturer's torrent of words slides off him. A "mute, inglorious Milton", taking his first steps! Likewise, what of the note-book sketcher? Another Whistler in the cotyledonous stage, learning his art under scholastic duress! As for the Darwins those fraternities and organizations that demand initiatory cats doubtless have their place in the education of great men. Or such, at least, are the comforting inferences to be drawn from the work of some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENS INSANA? | 3/22/1924 | See Source »

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