Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of the American Academy of Arts & Letters & the National Institute of Arts & Letters, located on Broadway, between 155 & 156 St. on Audubon …

PROFILE of John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. The main interests of the 66-year-old philanthropist now seem to focus on the Population Council, established in 1952 …

PROFILE of prominent lawyer Francis T.P. Plimpton. At 70, he is senior partner in the law firm Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates. From 1968-1971, he was …

PROFILE of Bertram A. Powers, president of the New York Typographical Union No. 6. The body was founded by Horace Greeley, who was its first present. He …

PROFILE of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher of the N.Y. "Times". He was born Feb. 5, 1926; was brought up in a big house at 5 E. 80 St. He …

PROFILE of the American Museum of Natural History, Roy Chapman Andrews, born in Beloit, Wis., was the Museum's most celebrated staff explorer. He was a…

PROFILE of the American Museum of Natural History. Morris K. Jesup became the Museum's third president in 1881. He put the Museum on its feet. When he …

A 1968 Profile of the owner, publisher of the New York Post, from 1939 to 1976.

PROFILE of the Smithsonian Institution. It had been established by Congress for only a few months in 1846 when Spencer Fullerton Baird, who was 24, wrote …

PROFILE of the Smithsonian Institution, in Wash., D.C. It owes its name & existence to a contingent residuary bequest, eventually amounting to …

Geoffrey T. Hellman meets Barbra Streisand, an unknown twenty-year-old singer wowing audiences on Broadway, in 1962.

PROFILE of Stanley N. Arnold, of Stanley Arnold Associates Inc., a marketing-and-sales-management consultant. Mr. A. said that nearly 60 million dollars …

Geoffrey T. Hellman visits the British author and humorist P. G. Wodehouse and his wife at their Long Island home, shortly after both had become American citizens.

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip up the Hudson on the Hudson River Day Liner "Alexander Hamilton" to West Point, with a lecture by Mrs. Pat Tobin Philip. …

PROFILE of Bennett A. Cerf, president of the publishing firm of Random House. Cerf was born in N.Y.C., the only child of Custave Cerf, a lithographer who …

PROFILE of Chester Dale, a former public-utilities magnate & art collector, & president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The Dale collection …

For many years scientists have said that the monarch butterfly is shunned by birds because it is unpalatable. The viceroy, another butterfly that is …

Writer received a book called "How to Gain an Extra Hour Every Day", by Ray Josephs. He offers his comments on the time-saving devices of prominent people,…

The writer straightens out the Schiffs and the Warburgs, two families allied in marriage, the banking business, and a variety of good works.

PROFILE of Victor Borge whose Broadway show "Comedy in Music" has broken all records for one-man shows anywhere. In 1952, Borge bought a 435-acre farm in …

Writer derides an article on beauty in the April issue of "Harper's Bazaar". Among the beauty suggestions that he finds ridiculous are: Women should …

PROFILE of Philippe, a 44-year-old London-born Frenchman of American citizenship who is the Waldorf's vice-president in charge of catering, head of its…

PROFILE of Howard Ketcham, color engineer, with offices at 101 Park Ave. Ketcham differs from most industrial designers in that he thinks of design …

PROFILE OF Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the board of Coty, Inc., and Coordinator of Recruiting & Public Information of the N. Y. C. Office of Civil …

PROFILE of Grover Whalen, the city's official greeter for distinguished guests. Whalen has a number of medals. O'Dwyer presented him with a …

Profile of Dr. Sidney Dillon Ripley II, one of the countrys outstanding authorities on, and collectors of birds of the Far East. Although he holds the …

Profile of Wilmarth S. Lewis, a Yale graduate and Yale Trustee, who has become the world's outstanding authority on, collector of, and promoter of …

Profile of Wilmarth S. Lewis, a Yale graduate and Yale Trustee, who has become the world's outstanding authority on, collector of, and promoter of …

Profile of Countess Mara, Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, who incorporated herself as a cravateer, and a countess, in 1938. Tells about her necktie business, …

Profile of Alfred A Knopf. Tells about his satorial tastes the appearance of his books, design, type, etc. Mentiones a number of Knopf authors, his pride …

A 1948 Profile of the book publisher Alfred A. Knopf. “Knopf enjoys complaining. Among his permanent grievances are the idiocy of most publishers, including himself.”

Profile of Alfred A Knopf. Tells about his satorial tastes the appearance of his books, design, type, etc. Mentiones a number of Knopf authors, his pride …

PROFILE of Dr. Andrey Avinoff, a Russian lepidopterist and painter. Dr. Karl Jordan, the curator of the entomological Dept. of Rotschild's Museum in …

Talk interview with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of Council of Government of new state of Israel, & presumptive first president of that state. Weizmann …

Profile of Dr. William J. Robbins, the director of the N.Y. Botanical Garden. Dr. Robbins is physiological mycologist, or a student of the behavior of …

PROFILE of Le Corbusier, the French architect. He expressed his thoughts about America to a friend recently, and on N. Y. "New York is a turntable where …

PROFILE of Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) the French architect, exponent of modern architecture & a member of the U. N. Headquarter's …

PROFILE of Jean Delacour, the most distinguished aviculturist in the world. Early in this century, at a country place his family owned a …

PROFILE of Jean Delacour, the most distinguished aviculturist in the world. Early in this century, at a country place his family owned a …

PROFILE of Howard S. Cullman, of the Cullman Brothers tobacco firm, president of the Beekman Downtown Hospital, chairman of Port of N. Y. Authority, and …

PROFILE of Howard S. Cullman, the theatrical investor. Tells about his 5-year trustee-ship of the Roxy Theatre. In '32, Cullman was appointed receiver …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Sachs, the man who got President Roosevelt interested in atomic research. Biographical sketch of the scientist, account of the …

PROFILE of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. He leans heavily on Herbert E. Gaston, senior Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for public relations, and at the …

PROFILE of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. His chief assistantsin the planning of War Bond sales are two young men known in the Treasury …

PROFILE of A.E. Giegengack, printer of the Stars & Stripes The paper, which in 1918 had a circulation among American soldiers of 550,000 & would have had …

PROFILE of Augustus E. Giegengack, of the U. S. Printing Office. Giegengack was a popular lad in Brooklyn, a connoisseur of girls, beer and anecdote. The …

Profile of Joseph Clark Baldwin. Baldwin consistently opposed Tammany extravagance and chicanery. In April 1930, he introduced a resolution demanding that …

PROFILE of Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin. His greatest pleasure in Washington has probably been to arrange and conduct expeditions of several more or …

PROFILE of Frank Crowninshield. Once during a match at the Links Club in which Crowninshield beat Fontaine Fox one up, the cartoonist muffed the drive on …

PROFILE of Alexander Calder. Mr. Calder had a miniature circus with which he used to entertain his friends. His circus was not always a success. Ten or …

PROFILE of Mrs. Wales Latham, founder and president of Bundles for Britain. Mrs. Latham spotted an empty street-front store at 484 Park Avenue, found that …

PROFILE of Norman Bel Geddes. In 1927, Geddes persuaded Franklin Simon to let him do one of their windoes, which he decorated with a metal bust wearing a …

PROFILE of Albert Eugene Gallatin. In 1907, when motoring was still a pioneering sport, he managed to combine all three interests, Society, travel, and …

When Mr. Schuster of Simon & Schuster proposed to get out a "Believe It Or Not" book Ripley said that he was just a two-cent man. Schuster finally obtained…

Profile of Igor Sikorsky. During the first two and a half years of his business career in America, Sikorsky had been financed largely by the Russian colony…

REPORTER AT LARGE about Greystone, the estate of the late Samuel Untermeyer. In recent years he made a number of efforts to give the estate away, none of …

Profile of Elmer G. Leterman, high-powered insurance salesman and exclusive agent of the Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Co. He went to Honolulu in 1937 as local …

Profile of the Metropolitan Museum. General Louis Palma di Cesnola, served as director from 1879 until his death in 1904. In 1874 he had sold the Museum, …

PROFILE of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new direct or will be Francis H. Taylor, now director of the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, who will …

PROFILE of Frank Capra. At the Academy dinner in 1938, when various medals and honorific object d'art were awarded to those involved in Warner …

PROFILE of Elisabeth Achelis who has, since 1930, spent practically all her time trying to secure the universal adoption of a permanent, unchanging …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Trotskyists in N.Y., officially known as the Socialist Workers Party. During its 11 years of existence it has consistently …

PROFILE of Simon & Schuster, publishers, tells about the biggest literary hoax of the century. It involved Joan Lowell (Helen Joan Wagner's "Cradle of …

PROFILE of Simon & Schuster. In 1927 Simon & Schuster best-seller "Trader Horn" made a fortune for the partners Alfred Aloysius Horn, whose real name was …

PROFILE of John C. Craig, consultant on pyrotechnics to the Board of Display of the World'sFair. Craig writes the specifications for the fireworks, …

PROFILE of Dr. Bruce Blair, veterinarian, who has a flourshing practice of a select small-animal clientele in N.Y. He has treated some 200,000 dogs & cats,…

Talk story about Frida Kahlo, Mrs. Diego Rivera, and her exhibition of paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery. Most of the pictures at her exhibition are of …

Reporter at Large: History of court-tennis, called royal tennis in Australia, jeu de paume in France, and just plain tennis in England. Contraversy over …

PROFILE of Cooper Union, founded by Peter Cooper, and opened in 1859. Tells about its art school, mentions former students, Morgan F. Larson, ex-Governor …

Profile of John R. Todd, one of the members of the board of managers of Rockefeller Centre. Tells about the proposed site for the new Metropolitan Opera …

PROFILE of George Biddle of Philadelphia, artist, now working on a mural in the new Department of Justice Building at Washington. Fifteen other painters …

Randall, Robert Richard, bachelor landlubber son of a pirate father, asked his friend Alexander Hamilton, how he might best dispose of estate. The latter …

PROFILE OF Edward Ringwood Hewitt, regarded for two or three decades as America's leading crack dry-fly, wet-fly, mouse, grasshopper, and bare-hands …

Tells of the Hammer collection, appraised originally at over $1,000,000 which has been enthusiastically written up in the art sections of most …

Profile of Hamilton Fish, Jr.

PROFILE of Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who had made Egyptian expeditions for the Museum before he became its director …

PROFILE of Joseph P. Day, the world's crack-real-estate auctioneer. He has sold a billion and a quarter dollars worth of property in the first three …

PROFILE of Charles Nessler, inventor of the Permanent Wave which he brought to this country in 1915. He uses the name of Nestle in business. He also …

Whenever the sponsors of a worthy cause are about to form a committee, one of the first names they think of is George Gordan Battle. Possibly they feel …

Profile of James Speyer, banker and president of the Speyer & Company. Tells of his career as financial head, his marriage to Ellin Prince, and his various…

Profile of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who is responsible for the founding of the Free Synagogue where he has the freedom of speech from his pulpit, and where …

Profile of Dr. William Norman Guthrie, rector of St. Marks-in the-Bowrie who is a paradoxical, religious figure. He is extremely intelligent, …

Personality of Gurdjieff, the philosopher who is now lecturing at Carnegie Hall where some of his disciples read a few chapters from the Master's book …