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Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...
...year include the following instructors: Joe S. Bain to the University of Colorado; Glenn H. Craig to the University of Montana; J. Kenneth Galbraith, who holds a faculty appointment, to Princeton; John P. Miller '32 to Princeton for a year; Spencer Pollard '32, to the Sloan Foundation of New York University, where he will direct a movie educational campaign in economics; Kenyon F. Poole '29, to Brown; George P. Reynolds '20, to Johns Hopkins; and Harold F. Williamson to Yale...
...lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last week they took 13 Morgantown youngsters to Manhattan...
...dean of U. S. illustrators, in the opinion of many artists, is a stolid, 68-year-old Philadelphian who now lives in a white frame house and raises chickens in Gladstone, N. J. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts along with Artists John Sloan and William Glackens, got into illustrating as they did, by doing newspaper work in Philadelphia. Gruger remained an illustrator. After 1899 when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine. The Post's romantic and period fiction by such experts...
Automobiles. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, No. 1 in 1936 with $561,311, dropped to $183,708. (His company sold 4% more cars in 1937 than in 1936.) G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen dropped from $459,878 to $247,210. Ford Motor Co. paid Chairman Henry Ford nothing, President Edsel Ford $146,056, Vice President Peter Martin $171,465, Superintendent Charles E. Sorensen $166,071. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. paid its President George Walter Mason $233,957; Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman Walter P. Chrysler drew...