Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Wheelock, short, ruddy, 60, left high school to volunteer for the Spanish-American War, drifted into commercial art via teaching. Industrial design is still one of his side lines, but many a museum is proud to own his sculpture. He uses no model, chalks out his figure on a chunk of wood. Then he takes a homemade hickory mallet, pounds his carving chisel along the lines he wants to make. He never cuts too deeply-"possibly because I was born with a puritanical conscience...
...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...
...been: ". . . Up from nothing." Bob Taft came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures...
Romance. A whopping chunk of the total proposed 1941 expenditures-$1,834,000,000 of the $8,424,000,000-is for Author Roosevelt's national defense program. To meet the $460,000,000 wanted for extra defense expenditures, he proposed to this election-year Congress, without batting an eye, that they pass a tax bill...