Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the idea of securing a house was casually thrown out; Schafer snatched it up, and after working out plans with Archibald McMillan 2Dv, Jacob Hagopian 2G, and Amando Dalisay 2G, sold the idea to Raymond Dennett '36, P.B.H. graduate secretary, and to the Brooks House Cabinet, which agreed to guarantee the rent bills for three years...
...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...
...that it came last week after Middle-of-the-Roader Edouard Daladier had taken overt steps presaging a French diplomatic break with the Soviet Union. Some 100 Paris police swooped down to raid the Soviet Trade Delegation, broke open its safes and files, seized incriminating papers. When Soviet Ambassador Jacob Suritz angrily protested, demanding release of several arrested Soviet clerks, his demand was flatly rejected. Home from Moscow to Paris, ostensibly on sick leave, hustled French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. With the certainty that Great Britain and France are now rushing large supplies to Finland, the likelihood of a break...
Next day, a substitute teacher named Ellen S. Matthews marched into the office of Associate School Superintendent Jacob Greenberg, Dr. Altman's boss. Miss Matthews demanded a permanent job. Superintendent Greenberg explained the procedure for getting one. Suddenly Teacher Matthews seized an inkwell on his desk, let fly. Mr. Greenberg ducked. Teacher Matthews screamed, seized more inkwells, a lamp, whatever else happened to be handy, chucked them at nimble Mr. Greenberg. Police carried Miss Matthews off to Bellevue Hospital's psychopathic ward. Dr. Altman was not surprised. Said he: "It's a lucky thing she didn...
...London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...