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...will demand facts and details, will find plenty of both forth-coming. In this latter exigency, Dean Donham will unquestionably prove of the utmost value. Realizing more fully than anyone else, perhaps, what the possibilities of an independent; fully-equipped Business School are, Dean Donham will combine with his talent for executive work the most intimate knowledge of the uses to which the funds will be put, and of the advantages to business which must accrue...
Beebe has been fortunate in his coworkers. He has the sort of personality that attracts men and women of talent. Just how many American millionaires each year offer him transportation to far ends of the earth so that they may be taken along on his delightful pilgrimages, is a matter for speculation. At any rate, the Galápagos trip was made under the auspices of Mr. Harrison Williams and his yacht Notna...
Ziegfeld Follies. Around this time of late years, when business slackens, the Ziegfeld Follies have a new film of talent drawn over them. This is announced with great pomp and circumstance as "a new spring edition of the Ziegfeld Follies." As a matter of fact, there is usually not much that is new in the production, save in the bedazzled eyes of the publicity department. The showgirls, that essential base of the production, remain the same collection of sleeping beauties, glossily torpid with pulchritude...
...National Institute of of Arts and Letters. Mr. Whiting is unusually well-equipped to engage the attention and win the appreciation of his audiences; and he has succeeded regularly in accomplishing both of these feats--playing himself and drawing for accompaniment upon a wide variety of additional talent...
...advocates what amounts to a liberalization of the Press and of its aims. This liberalization would come through the welcoming of a more popular output, and a close monopoly of "home talent" to be gained by making overtures to prospective authors in the University before the outside presses have had opportunity to canvass. It would thus get the contract for books of a more or less popular appeal before they could be taken up outside. This would not only be remunerative and act as a sort of patronage for less favored books, but would give the Press a wider publicity...