Word: slenderization
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With city aid slashed to $80,000 a year and only slender endowments of its own, the Philadelphia Museum scrapes along on an operating budget of around $150,000, one-tenth the budget of Manhattan's Metropolitan, which alone among U. S. museums rivals it in size. But it has kept up its building program, now has no galleries open...
Almost every U. S. business bigwig who has been to Moscow knows slender, dry, efficient Spencer Williams. Most of them have rushed to him at one time or another for help in dealing with Bolshevik mountains of red tape...
Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...
...giving the U. S. the Statue of Liberty. One of M. Laboulaye's brightest assistants is Pierre de Lanux, who learned about the U. S. while lecturing here for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and The League of Nations Association. More over, he has a tall, slender, beautiful, U. S.-born wife...
...start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might precipitate a stockholders' scrap. Curtis bankers sat down to figure out another Plan, were rumored to be planning sacrifices for the common holders to make up for the wounds that the preferred is bound to have to take...