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...ruddy, superquiet stock speculator named Harry William Hosford, who had cleaned up in both the bull market of the early '20s and the bear market of the early '30s. Once a cabin boy on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Hosford now unostentatiously bought in one whack $21,-000,000 worth of bonds. (Later he disclosed he had bought $11,000,000 in bonds last fall.) Cleveland newspapers had never before printed Harry Hosford's picture, had not mentioned his name in 10 years...
...Boxing, Inc., a committee of sportswriters set up as dummy management, looked bad: they had okayed the deal whereby a juicy whack ($94,000) of the expected $1,000,000 gate was to go to Promoter Mike Jacobs, in payment of sums owed him by Conn and Louis, another $41,000 to pay Louis' debts to one of his co-managers, John Roxborough. Mike Jacobs looked terrible: he was to be the chief benefactor after Army Emergency Relief. Another: Yankee Stadium, which insisted on 5%, Bataan or no Bataan. But the War Department looked the worst: Secretary Stimson...
...Manhattan's Art Students League dusted out its classrooms for the opening of the fall semester last week, a spry, round-faced oldster with a head as bald as a pumpkin prepared for another whack at the job he had been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some...
...piece of second-or third-rate art looking for a first-rate controversy." This critical whack, laid on last week by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue...
...fashion of the times in colleges like Harvard to speculate upon the future of a liberal education beneath the pressure of a specialized society. The war, of course, has intensified such speculation. President Conant, ex-Dean Donham, numerous other authorities and experts, and Mrs. Roosevelt have taken a whack at the problem. One of the most recent, as well as one of the best whacks, was taken by the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure in yesterday's report. Yet from all these source a common danger begins to become apparent. The battle of words for "the preservation...