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...What a master stroke of business it would be for the Arrow Collar people to advertise in Life that handsome Langhorne Gibson, son of Publisher Charles Dana Gibson, seldom appears in public with his neck encased in any collar other than Arrow's gracile model, Kebo...
...Some day intolerance will be swept aside but not until our teachers unionize, not until they seize the control and the man who teaches us is the master of what he says...
...Here discretion is important. Outiside the precincts of St. Andrews, for example, lurk shaggy men offering their caddy services, pouncing on the unwary , extorting (later) avaricious prices. Go to the caddy master always. . . At St. Andrews, watch for aged caddy Hutchison, father of Jock (U. S. Open Chanmpion...
...they talked about having a strike. The revolt was quenched, but the dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered 20 lifelike representations of a camel...
...Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman...