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...choicest plum for a U. S. art student who is unmarried and not over 30 is the Prix de Rome. It gives the winner two idyllic years at the American Academy in Rome, is worth about $4,000. In 1912 one of the winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured...
...chauffeur. Usually their route is direct. But this, said the New Yorker, is the season of the year when Mr. Morgan & chauffeur make a detour, slow down almost to a stop as they pass through Sea Cliff so they can see a Mr. Young's superb blossoming plum tree...
Andrew Mellon last week dangled a huge sugar plum before the U. S. people as represented by the Board of Tax Appeals which for three months has been hearing the U. S. Government's claim that Mellon owes $3,089,000 on his 1931 income tax. In 1931, Mellon set up "an educational and charitable trust" to which year by year he hands over a number of his valuable old masters...
...collections of old masters, to the U. S. The Government's case is that he has by no means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...unexpected stroke for Mellon's contention that he will really give the U. S. his great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...