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...seized the bull by the horns by marching straight into the Harkness office. How much, calmly asked Mr. Harkness, did Lawrenceville want? Twelve days later Headmaster Heely returned with his sleek head full of ideas, got Edward S. Harkness' promise to erect and endow a new administration building, split two old classroom buildings into 49 conference rooms fitted out with oval tables, easy chairs and rugs, hire enough new teachers to make the Plan work...
Settled by compromise in Hollywood was the court battle between the aunt and parents of Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew over the guardianship of the 12-year-old star (TIME, April 20). Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew agreed to split Freddie's $1,250 weekly income with Miss Myllicent ("Aunt Cissie") Bartholomew, leave her exclusive control of his cinema career...
...sighed Banker Roosevelt. "That's the whole basis of this relief business. You take the money away from New York and give it to some backwoods state." RFChairman Jones thereupon challenged anyone to think up a better reorganization scheme. Banker Roosevelt promptly took him up, proposing to 1) split the road into an owning and an operating company connected by a one-year lease; 2) borrow $5,000,000 from RFC; 3) borrow $1,000,000 from Boston's rich, crotchety Frederick Henry Prince. In return for its money RFC would get first mortgage bonds and Mr. Prince...
...favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party on the eve of their triumph, at the moment when Gladstone has tentatively promised to introduce the Home Rule Bill. Sensing the division in the Irish ranks, the "old fox" manages to split the leaders from Parnell by asserting that he cannot do anything for a cause which is captained by a notorious libertine. Parnell is cast out by his devoted helpers and the Irish cause is left to flounder in the confusion stirred by the divorce suit which O'Shea has instituted...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...