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Outside Support. But as Ohio's 19 colleges launched their campaign, U.S. educators were beginning to get some powerful support from beyond the campus. Men like General Motor's Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Frank W. Abrams of Standard Oil (N.J.) have long been trying to persuade their colleagues that industry has a stake in higher education. Last month, at Yale's 250th anniversary, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of U.S. Steel, sounded the call again...
...WILD, WILD WOMEN - Virgil Partch-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...John Sloan Dickey, President of the College, announced that the wage hikes were made possible by favorable financial results for the college year ending June...
Sentimentalist. In Fort Wayne, Ind., attendants at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home noticed a mourner fondly clasp the hand of the deceased, later noticed that a $150 ring was missing from the corpse's finger...
Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face...