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...Left. Mr. Johnston had the advantage of numbers in his debate with Britain's razor-tongued Socialist-Economist Harold Laski. Moderator on last week's University of Chicago Round Table radio program beamed from London was his traveling companion, the University's hustling Vice President William Benton, who is also vice chairman of the liberal-businessman U.S. Committee for Economic Development...
...three agreed high employment must be the first aim of postwar economic policy. But Laski argued for "production for community consumption . . . [planned] by the State." Machinery-Man Johnston and Ex-Advertising-Man Benton plumped for an American ideal: "the initiative of millions which a free economy generates...
Among those obliging him (with one or more examples) were top-rank painters Kuniyoshi, Benton, Marsh, Gropper, Grosz, Evergood, Curry; cartoonists Thurber, Steinberg, R. Taylor. (Amiably disobliging was twice-married oldtimer Maurice Sterne, who wrote: "Why not have an exhibition to include artists' wives? . . . Some pretty good painters have been married three or four times; these could be numbered . . . and would be an interesting study in retrogression...
Wealthy Yaleman Bowles, 42, started writing advertising copy 16 years ago, resigned last year as chairman of the board of Manhattan's potent advertising firm, Benton & Bowles.* He has spent the last 1 8 months as a successful OPAdministrator for Connecticut. His program to make OPA more attractive...
...Benton & Bowles might more accurately be called Goshorn & Hobler. William B. Benton retired in 1936, became vice president of the University of Chicago, board chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The advertising firm's new chairman of the board is Atherton W. Hobler; president Clarence B. Goshorn...