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Alfred Gilbert, 78, could say that he had never changed his mind for anybody. In 1893 he was Britain's most fashionable sculptor when he began a long woe by doing the winged Eros for Piccadilly Circus honoring the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was paid for, refused, abused. Gilbert bought the bronze, $15,000 worth, himself. He refused to do another design...
...EARL R. HOAGG...
...Russian: "Workers of the World, Unite." Only one delegate from Kentucky was there, 14 others having "disappeared" in Pineville. The Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl Browden of New York announced that the war-cry of the Communists' presidential campaign would be: "Jobs, Bread and Peace." Said...
...Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...
Some three years ago the Earl of Feversham bought one of Pomona's prize stallions, Shelif. A controversy over the purity of Shelif's ancestry followed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). Many Kellogg horses have been sired at Baroness Wentworth's stud in England, including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...