Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give it up when I became king," he said...
Only the most skillfully concealed jewelry, fountain pens, watches or spectacles will escape pilfering from these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
...project of his life. By last week, 14 of the 36 life-size nudes, posturing and prancing on their plaster pedestals, were ready to be crated up for the foundry to be cast into bronze. A rich private cemetery in Falls Church, Va. had ordered the figures for a fountain, and Carl Milles had decided to model them on friends he had known long ago. The friends were all dead, but not to Milles. He had shown them in some pleasant afterworld living happily on forever...
Welcome to a Wife. Two years from now, anyone entering the Virginia cemetery will find the fountain in a courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three...
...Carl is a stooped old man with long white hair, who has lived and taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1931. Some of his best-known U.S. works: the Fountain of Diana, Chicago; the "Meeting of the Waters" fountain in St. Louis; the 37-ft. Peace Memorial, St. Paul; a granite monument to early Swedish settlers of Wilmington...