Word: steuben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Overseer candidates are: Myles P. Baker '22, Boston Physician; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, President, Steuben Glass, Inc., New York; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '29, President, Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co.; Clarence C. Little '10, Director, Rosco B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Malcolm E. Peabody '11, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse; Nicholas Roosevelt '14, author, Big Sur, Calif.; and H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, of Boston Science Museum...
...coat for his 16-year-old daughter starting school in the East because it would not be appropriate, instead persuaded him to buy a $295 muskrat. He also sees to it that Neiman's stocks many items his customers might need in an emergency, e.g., a set of Steuben crystal plates with Mexico's crest "because sooner or later somebody will be going to call on the President of Mexico and need a proper gift." For particular customers, Marcus will go to any lengths. He has provided bail for customers pinched on a toot, on a few hours...
John M. Gates--Vice-president, director of design, Steuben Glass...
...19th Century room, which looks cluttered to the 20th Century eye, just as artful and integrated as the modern exhibit. An expansive corner window, partly screened by spun-glass curtains, is the main feature of the modern room, where useless bric-a-brac has been replaced by Steuben's simple ash trays and an unconscionable quantity of crystal drinking equipment...
...wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...