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...Hamburg, Germany, Ottilie Stufmann. daughter of a university professor, told George Umbach last year she would marry him. He left for the U. S. to make his fortune, found no job. Last September Ottilie followed him to Manhattan, married him. George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving...
...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...Piccirillis are the Bronx climax of a distinguished family of Tuscans who, originally from Spain, worked in stone for two centuries around Carrara and Massa between the mountains and the sea, fought with Garibaldi and emigrated to Manhattan...
Forty-five years ago Father Piccirilli moved from central Manhattan to The Bronx, built a red brick house across several city lots with a large carriage door through which to haul out big sculptures. His sons he sent back to Italy one by one to study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln...
Each of the five Bronx brothers works on his own jobs in the Bronx house. Only on big jobs do they work together. Only Attilio, long separated from his wife, now lives in the house. The other brothers arrive early in the morning. Work begins with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks...