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Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in the crypt of the U. S. Capitol-"the first monument of woman to women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony...
...went Roland McKinney last week with his first exhibition at the Museum of History, Science and Art. Recognizing right off the bat the most lively art of the neighborhood he devoted the whole exhibition to work done on the Southern California Art Project. Under the direction of S. (for Stanton) MacDonald-Wright,* the project has concentrated on outdoor murals befitting the climate. On view were striking murals in many mediums, notably mosaic, petrachrome (dyed concrete in which are mixed little stones of varied color), and terra cotta slabs in low relief (an early Mesopotamian medium in which no serious work...
...politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students...
Last week Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount's executive committee, served notice that his company had not only jumped on television's bandwagon but was out to do the driving. He announced that telecasting from DuMont's transmitter now under construction at Montclair, N. J. would start in January, that Paramount had taken on the job of making cinema shorts, other films to be televised on the DuMont shows. But DuMont receiving sets are already being offered for sale in Manhattan stores for $395 ($150 to $250 is the reported mass production price). For demonstration they receive...
Officers of the society are: president, Professor Frederick A. Saunders; vice-president, F. A. Firestone, of University of Michigan; secretary, Wallace Waterfall, of the Celotex Corporation, Chicago, Ill.; treasurer, G. T. Stanton, of Electrical Research Products, Inc., New York City; and editor, F. R. Watson, University of Illinois...