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Francis Davis was no rubber man when the Du Fonts put him in to run U. S. Rubber in January 1929. He had worked his way through Yale, become an engineer, built fabulous Hopewell, Va. for the Du Fonts in Wartime, and moved up to manage various Du Pont enterprises. He had a record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general...
HAROLD B. SINGLETON Attorney-at-Law Lynchburg, Va...
Widow of William Sergeant Kendall, dean of the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1922, severe Author Herter lives a retired life at Hot Springs, Va.. far from the fevered world of exhibitions and studios. Although her book stimulates readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse...
...opening tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. only 80 competitors turned up-possibly because White Sulphur is the home course of Sam Snead, sensational 25-year-old pro who in his second year of big-time golf has been a bugaboo to his confreres. Up to last week he had earned the astounding sum of $17,572 in tournament competition this year-$10,000 more than second-running Johnny Revolta and $2,000 more than the all-time record set by Horton Smith...
...First theatrical performance in the Western Hemisphere took place in Mexico (c. 1530). First definitely recorded Colonial performance, at Accomac, Va. in 1665, was raided by cops. The actors had to dress up and give a second show before the judge, who acquitted them...