Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many scholars think that it was built as an impregnable fortress to defend the Inca empire's eastern approaches. Bingham has a different theory, which he develops in his forthcoming book Lost City of the Incas (Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered to show him everything-including a brand-new "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit in the library...
THIS VERY EARTH (254 pp.)-Erskine Caldwell - Duel!, Sloan & Pearce...
Another Season. But as the public uproar built up, Chairman Sloan did make himself a little more accessible. In calling off the season the week before, Sloan had cut off any further talk with the unions that he blamed for the shutdown (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week, he and six other board members huddled all one afternoon with the union representatives in a Grand Tier-floor room at the Met. When the meeting broke up, one union leader told reporters: "After all, we all left the meeting together, and nobody had any black eyes...
...John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...