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...last week because of a group of carved caricatures. Two were excellent, those of Adolf Hitler and of long-haired Gilbert White, the U. S.-born professional Montparnasse Bohemian (TIME, April 2). The rest of the 23 figures in the Benson show-garden figures, portrait heads, busts-were carefully wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio in the Maritime Alps, never copied Parisian sculptors. Last week he received guarded praise from New York's first-string critics...
...with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant, had not actually been raped. Indeed, she was back at school. Nevertheless Father Gibson swore a mighty oath, declaring: "The fire hain't started to burn yet. Our people back...
...official. They were scheduled to appear first as a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, later in book form. Friends of Friend Richberg saw the manuscript, rushed to him with alarming tales of what Friend Johnson had written about him. By last week Lawyer Richberg was so wrought up that he released to the Press a letter he had written to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer...
...game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they are totally unable to see the simplest flaws...
...Edward Mandell House passed his 76th birthday at his summer home in Beverly Farms, Mass., "altogether too busy" with "international problems" to celebrate the occasion. To newshawks the mousy little man from Texas said: "President Wilson and I never broke. What made it seem so was the change wrought in Wilson after Paris. After Paris he was a sick man, a man in the hands of a bedroom circle. The bedroom circle kept him apart from me and kept me apart from him. My letters never reached him; no messages were sent...