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...Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition?a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
Banker James P. Warburg: Having the right friends and a good set of teeth used to be the entrance requirements for banking. They are that no longer. Banking as a business career is dead. Banking as a profession is in its infancy. . . . Unless you are prepared to live on a salary I do not think you should go into banking...
...time a tribute to him which was born of years of worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
...MONEY MUDDLE-James P. Warburg-Knopf ($2). In London last July when President Roosevelt torpedoed the World Economic Conference from the U. S. S. Indianapolis, James Warburg was one of the young advisers who went down with the U. S. delegation. Back in Washington Adviser Warburg spent a futile hour trying to make the President see the error of his ways. After that Mr. Warburg ceased being an adviser. The Money Muddle is his full-length attack on the financial abracadabra of the New Deal. "In the hope that he would have liked this book" it is dedicated...
...Philharmonic-Symphony directors gave a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, proudly announced they had raised the $500,000 necessary to assure the Orchestra's existence for three more seasons (TIME, April 2). Contributors of more than $5,000: Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, Mr. & Mrs. Felix Warburg, Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann and Columbia Broadcasting System...