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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Henry Morganthau, returning to the U. S. from relief work abroad, Greece, oldest and youngest republic in the world, offered to loan the U. S. "for any length of time the Government may desire it," the most beautiful statue bequeathed to her by antiquity. The statue is Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus, the chef d'oeuvre of Praxiteles, famed Greek sculptor of the 4th Century...
Second prize ($1,000) went to Giovanni Romagnoli of Bologna, Italy, for his After the Bath. He is the youngest artist to win so important a prize at Pittsburgh, this being the first time any of his work has been shown in this country...
...Business School is one of the youngest of the graduate departments of the University; and it is still working out problems in a new pedagogic field for the benefit of other colleges, 106 of which are now using its "case books of business". Harvard is continuing to experiment and test the methods of teaching business, which ultimately may still further standardize these methods...
...Said Cholly Knickerbocker, Hearst's "Society Editor": "The infant will 20 years hence dance about at the same débutante parties with his auntie." Said Débutante, Society Editor for the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, not yet 20, is the youngest grandmother in Society...
Died. Frank Tilford, 71, President of Park & Tilford, famed grocers; in Florida, after a long illness. He was the youngest son of John M. Tilford, who, in 1835, with the assistance of a fellow clerk, Joseph Park, left the famed grocer Benjamin Albro, to "organize a little shop of their own." Frank entered the business at an early age, succeeded Hobart J. Park in 1906 as President and Treasurer. In 1923 he sold the business to David A. Schulte, head of the Schulte Retail (Cigar) Stores...