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...century the white-bearded old master has stood unchallenged at the peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...single piece of bronze. "When I returned with the finished product, Rodin looked at it for a long time and caressed it with his fingers. All he said was 'excellent.'" But from that moment on, until the sculptor's death in 1917, Rudier was the only caster allowed to touch a Rodin statue...
...could walk faster than a toddle, he played baseball ardently but ineptly; at the University of Alabama he failed to make the team. In 1934 he took time out on Saturdays from his law studies to do a fill-in job announcing at a Birmingham radio station. Sport-caster Ted Husing heard him, advised him to try CBS in New York. Allen passed a CBS audition in 1937, before long was announcing special events at $150 a week-a sum which made it easy for him to forget his ambitions for the law. In 1939, he became a major league...
...chess team beat the Wells Chess Club, 4 to 1, yesterday in Boston. Yank Wyse, Charlie Cutler, Larry Caster, and Allen Calhamer...
...stable. By mixing work with three weeks of lolling under the Key West sun, the President and his advisers hoped to sharpen up for a big tour that will take him across the U.S. and back in May. Just about every trend spotter, word shaper and evil-eye caster on the President's staff was on hand to condition the champ and polish up his footwork...