Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which it apparently was. Though he vastly simplified what he saw, none of Luks's pictures could be called art-for-art's-sake; he was a reporter in oils with a dramatic flair like that of his contemporaries John Sloan and George Bellows, and like them he regularly suppressed irrelevant details for the sake of a few telling ones...
...Tiger's Friend. Just before election day last November, he made public his plans to marry an ex-model, Sloan Simpson. When newspapermen coarsely suggested that his timing might have something to do with getting elected, he gave them all the rough side of his tongue, and, even worse, became a camera dodger...
Said General Motors Corp. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. last week: "A dividend increase at this time will help to keep [stockholders'] returns since the war more in line with the increased cost of living." G.M.'s contribution to the cause: a fat $2.50 extra dividend on top of its regular $1.50 quarterly payment. All told, G.M. stockholders will get $176 million for the quarter, of which $40 million will go to Du Pont, biggest G.M. stockholder. G.M. dividends this year already amount to $7 a share v. 1949's total payment...
...forestall any "hoarding" of cars, automen cautioned: "Don't get panicky. There's plenty for everybody." In fact, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. thought that the huge demand for cars would soon begin to taper off; he doubted that it would hold at its present peak beyond year...
...occasional unusual job turned up. Edith Sloan, a February graduate, is at present an assistant principal at the Episcopal School in Liberia. Claire Ham '50 will be working on cancer research at M.I.T...