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...week was big-bodied John Pierpont Morgan, though he was not again called to the witness stand. Hour after hour he sat to one side in a spindly little chair watching the proceedings. Clustered about him were his partners. Not a day passed but the country was told the pattern of his suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors. &3134; There he would dress, dine quietly, go early...
...Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under the auspices of the College Art Association.† Mickey Mouse's popularity derives from the absolute freedom of the art form in which he exists. He can break all natural...
...Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison Square Garden crowd was throwing newspapers, programs, orange peels, cigarets, candy-wrappers on the ice when the swift pendulum that is the pattern of a close hockey game paused for a moment as Bun Cook of the Rangers scored the first goal. Cecil Dillon of the Rangers scored the second, a minute later, before the first period was three-quarters over. That settled the game. Discouraged as well as tired, the Maple Leafs...
...experiences, it won't help him much or enable him to go very far. But if he has some capacity for generalization and seeing things broadly in outline and some ability to think in terms of principles and policies, he will in time be able to work out a pattern or program into which he can fit his accumulated fragments of knowledge in much the same way as the pieces of a picture puzzle fall into place, and thus give them far more meaning and value than they would otherwise have. The ability to do this is necessary for executive...
Ragnar Hairybreeks was a pattern for Vikings, and his sons were pretty tough too, all except Thorlief Coalbiter. Thorlief let others go a-viking; he preferred to sit by the fire and figure things out. He figured to such good purpose that he continued to sit safe and prosperous at home while his kinsmen cleft each other to the brisket in various foreign parts. But his sons Skallagrim and Kol were chips of the older block. As long as they followed Thorlief's advice their forays were generally successful. But there came a day when his sons...