Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Mr. Howard acquired a new associate in lively Merlin Hall ("Deke") Aylesworth, who will leave the chairmanship of Radio-Keith-Orpheum March 1 to become a Scripps-Howard executive-without-portfolio...
...surprise of the exhibition is the revelation of the arts of the Shaker. Since their products are now mainly in the hands of private collectors, the Index of Design has allotted them a whole portfolio, to preserve them for the public and the future. Furniture, costumes and textiles are shown here, in all their austere utility and straightness of lines, combined with perfect proportion...
Once, caught in a fierce storm, Audubon took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only...
...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...
...progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only tobacco but electric-power and basic-warfare-chemicals securities. Late Son Benjamin Newton...