Robert M. Coates
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The writer demonstrates what a strange place New York is by relating some coincidences and unusual accidents that have taken place. Then he tells a story …
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Profile of John Sloan, the artist. He began his career as an artist as a painter of greeting cards. Later, as a staff artist on the Philadelphia Press, he …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Sperry Gyroscope Company's stratochamber to observe an experimental "flight The stratochamber is a contrivance …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Knaust brothers's mushroom mines at Kingston, N. Y. Until the end of the 19th century Kingston was the centre of two now …
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Descriptions of restaurants on stray match covers; places we are not likely to see for some time because of the tire shortage. Mentions Chateau de Jour, …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Danbury Penitentiary. The prison capacity is about 600 men. It was designed originally for convicts serving …
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Idioms used in comparing man with the animals. Sly as a fox, mean as a coyote, fat as a pig, crazy as a loon, blind as a bat, inquisitive as a magpie, …
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PROFILE of Hilary Turner, ferry boat captain. In 1904 a 10 year franchise expired, by which the S.I. Rapid Transit Railway Co., a subsidiary of the …
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A Profile, from 1930: Keller was convinced that what she had done, others could do, Robert M. Coates writes—her struggle had been in combating the world’s refusal to regard her as a normal human being.
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PROFILE of J. Clarence Davies, one of the real-estate pioneers of the Bronx. It was an accident that brought him to the Bronx. He got a broken ankle while …
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During her years as a Texas schoolteacher, the artist discovered abstraction, Robert M. Coates writes. Then Alfred Stieglitz, at his popular picture gallery, 291 Fifth Avenue, discovered her.