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After 39 years with Kennecott Copper Corp., E. Tappan Stannard, 66, decided to retire. He had joined Kennecott in 1911 as a mining engineer in Chile, risen to general manager of Kennecott's Alaska mines five years later, and moved into the presidency in 1933. Under him, Kennecott, biggest copper producer in the U.S., boosted sales from $50 million to $350 million a year...
...first, President Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation...
...British Collector Stannard's dealer sticks to his story: that his portrait of Henry is the earliest authenticated one. The National Portrait Gallery sits firmly on the fence...
...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...
...When I found the green background," said Stannard, "I realized it was pre-Holbein. And then of course when I discovered it was Henry painted at the age of 20, I knew it was too valuable a picture to hang in the house." Stannard had already sold his anonymously painted Henry for "something over a hundred pounds," when it went on show. The stubborn little mouth and wide, shrewd eyes in the portrait were history as well as art; they proved that even at 20, the marrying monarch had looked right for his part: kingly, cruel, and courageous...