Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over his head like the Statue of Liberty torch, mounted on a 100-foot-high pedestal bearing an inscription, "Never was so much owed by so many to one man," which thoroughly squeezed the juice from a great Churchillism. A model (see cut) was prepared by a New Hampshire sculptor, Viggo Brandt-Erickson. Davis offered his idea to the mayors of 14 towns on the English Channel coast...
...William Reid Dick, "King's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland," who thinks Roosevelt should stand, had spent the past six months modeling him that way. His design for the statue in London's Grosvenor Square had already been approved by the Royal Fine Arts Commission. But now the squawks from the thousands who had chipped in five shillings apiece (total: ?40,000) for the statue were being heard. Sir William's Roosevelt is shown in his flowing cape and a double-breasted suit, with the trouser cuffs flopping over his shoes and the top coat button characteristically...
About the only interested party who refrained from writing the newspapers was Sculptor Dick. Last week Sir William, who has modeled the King and Queen, Queen Mary, Churchill and Halifax without raising anybody's hackles, implied that it was all a matter of artistic license, good-naturedly explained that "a sitting figure of Roosevelt would be all wrong in the general arrangement. It would look squat and dumpy alongside the tall trees that will surround...
Died. Charles Despiau, 72, French sculptor, pupil of famed Auguste Rodin, sponsor during the Nazi occupation of Hitler's third-rate court sculptor Arno Breker; in Paris...
...Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat of far-off voodoo drums...