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...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones...
...newspaper column is necessarily restricted to more or less isolated incidents-a magazine article gives fuller scope for a well-rounded discussion of a subject. Such an article Mr. Kent contributed, in August, 1924, to the American Mercury, nor is there any evidence that his point of view has shifted since that date. Entitled "Mr. Coolidge," the article began by maintaining that Washington correspondents, awed by the presidential office, eager for presidential esteem, always paint a President "a little prettier than...
Kodak. "If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak," says the Eastman Kodak Co., Kodaking as it goes. Recently the Federal Trade Commission, a federal investigating body, the precise scope of whose authority no-one has determined, objected to Eastman's recent purchase of three laboratories for the making of cinema films. The output of these three laboratories was greater than that of all other laboratories east of Chicago; the Commission alleged that they would result in throttling competition, ordered the Eastman Co. to dispose of them. The Eastman Co. refused. The Supreme Court endorsed the refusal...
...which contains most of the text books required for History 1, the introductory course in that department taken by most of the entering class each year. The other library, primarily designed as a reference for English A, provides a general reading-room similar to the Farnsworth Room in its scope and character...