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Business: Frederick G. Donner, Crawford Greenewalt, Conrad Hilton, William McChesney Martin, Alfred P. Sloan, Juan Trippe, Thomas J. Watson. Eddie Rickenbacker, Richard Mellon, Gwilym A. Price, G. Keith Funston, Ralph Cordiner, Lynn A. Townsend, Elizabeth Arden...
Aging young engineers obviously need a depletion allowance as their knowledge goes out of date, and last week the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided something akin to it: a $5,000,000 grant to M.I.T. for a new cram school to retrain seasoned engineers...
...home with watercolors, pastels and crayon. He even had one brief fling with impressionism. So equipped, Anshutz could recognize important tendencies and strengths in his pupils, then draw these out and enlarge them. Four of his pupils were Robert Henri. George Luks, William Glackens and John Sloan, all destined to become city realists who dramatized the piercingly lonely everyday life of New York in the early 1900s, and all better known-until now-than courtly old Professor Anshutz...
...Sloan's description of the outgoing officers as "a bunch of finks," brought laughter from the membership. Then, calling Wallison "Mr. Madison Avenue," Sloan promised "no rigged elections" and "no finky flnesse" with Grizzle...
Also elected were: Patricia A. Sloan '65, of Comstock Hall, clerk; Paul R. Ryack '63, of Quincy House, station manager, and Thomas P. Storer '65, of Winthrop House and James D. Birch '64, of Lowell House, members of the board...