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...Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...Mendieta seemed near the end of his rope but Cubans had forgotten that in his youth their President was famed for his violent temper and his willingness to fight with his fists, a practice always impressive to Latins. Abruptly last week the hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes...
...rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits of foolery from the correspondents' dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels by finding more peanuts (39) than anyone else. Mrs. Glenn Green, wife of a United Pressman, pinned a tail closest to the rump of a Democratic donkey, gloated: "That's female United Press accuracy...
Shinn has designed a rotary engine and an automobile. He won the commission for the enormous murals in Trenton's City Hall by building an eight-foot model of the building, through the windows of which the late John Roebling (wire rope) was delighted to discover a reproduction of his own Factory No. 9. He decorated the interior of the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, has been art director for three cinema companies. And, best of all, he is the author of one of the most successful burlesques ever written: Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual. This Shinnanigan...
...That was a time for iron nerves, I can tell you. With my rope gone, the slightest movement would have thrown me off my balance. After three hours they were able to lower another rope from the chimney top and take me off that ledge. I wouldn't be here now if I'd become jittery when the other fellow fell...