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Parks, Florida. When he sold his stock-ticker for $40,000 in 1870, he set up a laboratory in Newark. Later, he moved to Menlo Park, N. J. and still later to Llewellyn Park. He also established a winter laboratory at Fort Myers, Fla. In these places he worked...
...newest art rooms last week, the American Folk Art Gallery. The A. F. A. G.'s mission, say its promoters, is to exhibit and sell American Primitives. Connected with the enterprise as an adviser is little, round Holger Cahill, onetime press-agent and at present consultant for the Newark Museum...
...Cahill is accused of admiring the Whitney Museum collection sufficiently to imitate the idea, spoil the Whitney Museum's surprise. Critics paid little attention to the Whitney-Cahill tiff but did raise surprised eyebrows in the American Folk Art Gallery. Most of the American primitive paintings seen in Newark, yet to be seen in the Whitney Museum, either were sufficiently well painted to stand on their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There were few such pictures for sale...
...reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
Twenty-three of the awards are made for travel abroad. Six research fellowships in the Law School; with a total value of $15,750, were announced as follows: the Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship to B. H. Pollitt of Newark, N. J.; the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship to P. E. Bryan, of Emery University, Georgia; the Brandies Research Fellowship to A. L. Harding, of Dallas, Texas; and three unnamed research fellowships in the school, to P. A. Freund, of St. Louis, Missouri; G. V. Head of Columbia, Missouri; and J. J. Smith, Jr., of Meridian, Mississippi...