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...excessively reticent about her early life. She was born in New York City about 30 years ago, had a comfortable bourgeois childhood and developed an urge to paint. She had a job in the daytime but attended night classes at the Art Student's League under shock-headed John Sloan. Fellow students remember her as the girl that solemnly writhed and grimaced while drawing. When John Sloan praised her work she thought he could not be a good teacher, left his class, disillusioned. Because she thought her paintings lacked form she studied movement and dancing. With $25 she hired...
...assemble a more impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with his friends, using...
...share. That Insull carried on expansion of his companies at the beginning of the depression in proportion to that of many other large industries--automobile, oil, transportation, etc.--can not be denied. But Mr. Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system of pyramiding stocks in the organization of new companies and by clever propaganda which created an unwarranted demand for common stock. By an ingenious series of maneuvers...
Competent and strong, Footballer Sturm's portrait heads revealed more finish than would be expected from a man who studied only a few weeks at Yale School of Fine Arts, served a brief apprenticeship in drawing under John Sloan. Most appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait...
General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and many another industrialist is convinced that in the long sweep of industrial civilization the course is still upward and will be milestoned by more products of applied science than have ever yet appeared. The news last week, for the first time in years, was dotted with many a milestone of engineering achievement, big and little...