Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GENERAL KENNEY REPORTS (594 pp.)−George C. Kenney - Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, running for reelection, was a likely candidate for marriage as well. Photographers snapped him at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the ballet with brunette, thirtyish ex-Model Sloan Simpson, a fashion consultant whom he met about a year ago. Newsmen scraped together hints that suggested a wedding by Christmas. It would be the second for each.* The most piquant hint came from the mayor himself. Asked pointblank for his intentions, O'Dwyer parried: "I will discuss that after the election." Then he leaned back in his chair...
...admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred to as "the ashcan school...
...From then on, with forceful, explosive Mrs. Force as front man, the Whitney Studio went great guns. By 1928 the Whitney Studio Club, where artists could get together and show their works, had 400 members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works by Whitney-sponsored artists were getting into museums, and selling on Fifth Avenue...
Daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Leonard went through Memorial and Sloan-Kettering, talking to biochemists, organic chemists, physical chemists, physicists, virologists, clinicians, surgeons, etc. He talked to Dr. Rhoads for hours on end, and at night read through the foot-high stack of scientific papers the director had given him. Some of them were as yet unpublished. Most were written in science's highly technical terminology, and in the process of reading them Leonard found himself learning new languages like that of cytology (the study of cells...