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...names of the late Paul and Felix Warburg bulked in U. S. finance, few knew that two other Warburg brothers played big roles in finance, that Max and Fritz Warburg, along with Max's son Erich, ran M. M. Warburg & Co. of Hamburg, Germany. For five years this rich banking firm, founded in 1797, and having an affiliate in Amsterdam, escaped Nazi persecution of Jews. Last week the ax finally fell: M. M. Warburg & Co. was, converted into a limited company under the same name. Officers will be representatives of Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and other big German banks...
...nominations for Directors of the Alumni Association are Phillips Ketchum '06, Boston, law; Gilbert G. Browne '10, New York, finance; Richard C. Floyd '11, Brookline, manufacturing; John S. Fleek '15, Cleveland, finance; Edward W. Mahan '16, Lakewood, New Jersey, education; Laurence M. Lombard '17, Boston, law; Frederick W. Warburg '19, New York, finance; and Barry Bingham '18, Louisvile, journalist...
...they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental objects...
...Warburg, a benefactor of the Fogg Museum, had always taken an active interest in the Quartet and obtained the four Stradivarius instruments played by them...
...concert was held in the central court of the Museum. It opened with Brahms' "Quartet in C Minor," Opus 51, No. 1. This was followed by "Fantaisie Hebraique," written for Warburg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday by Pochon, and by Beethoven's "Quartet in E Flat Major...