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...PETER VISCHER...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...accident policy's values for injuries incurred at games or in the hunting field. A man who admits that he plays polo constantly, rides to hounds, steeplechases or drives a racing motorboat, is lucky to get a policy at all. Three years ago it occurred to smart Peter Vischer, editor of Polo, that insurance specially intended for sportsmen would be popular. Three of his friends-Charles Miner of the Litchfield County Hunt, Reginald C. M. Peirce, who played polo for Squadron A in Manhattan, and Capt. Carl B. Searing, retired, of the Army-organized Sportsmans Mutual Assurance...
...hire a faculty of a director, three assistant sculptors, a painter, a musician and several industrial technicians. Opening in October, the Taliesin Fellowship will have room for 70 apprentices at a little over $500 yearly apiece. Among them will be Manhattan Sculptress Lucienne Bloch, Peiping Architect Yen Liang and Vischer Boyd, son of a Philadelphia architect...
...first big issue contained an article by Editor Peter Vischer of Polo (which Publisher Quigley used to own) on Chicago's exciting fortnight of international polo at Onwentsia (TIME, July 20). Other contributors were talent mustered from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite...