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...political importance was neither brief nor passing. Academician. Dr. Tugwell is not the kind of man who ordinarily is an issue in U. S. politics. When he was being questioned by Senators (TIME, June 18), Iowa's Senator Murphy demanded: "Did you ever follow a plow?" "Yes, sir." ''Did you ever have mud on your boots?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know how hard it is to get a dollar out of the soil?" "Yes, sir." All these "correct" answers referred to the time when as a college boy Rex Tugwell used to work during vacations...
...Dewing, 53, Bostonian born, was long a noted figure at Harvard, no less for his trenchant teachings than for his handsome beard-which has never been shaved, which once, on shipboard, caused him to be mistaken for a Maharaja. No mere academician is he. Ten or 15 years ago he began buying up small New England utility companies that were not doing too well. Turning precept to example, he put them on a profitable basis. While Insull interests and New England Power Co. were struggling for control of New England utilities, he more than held his own, adding...
...honest modernists admired and respected Gari Melchers. He was an Academician, but an Academician who continued to grow. His style, from the polished realism of his early Paris canvases through the brightly colored Dutch peasant scenes of the 1900's to the solid portraits of his later work, was never fixed. At the age of 71 he produced a nude study, "Virginia Beach," which the Whitney Museum hung last month with its biennial exhibition of young modernists...
...were 800 copies of William Powell Frith's famed "Railway Station." Old Graves gravers, sniffing at modern art prices, remember that this heavily varnished canvas was the artistic sensation of 1862. Royal Academician Frith sold the picture outright for $22,500 and received another $3,750 for waiving his right to show it in the Academy. When it was put on private exhibition, 21,150 people paid to see it in seven weeks, most of them subscribing for copies...
Artist Grosz's name had sundered the Art Students' League in April (TIME, April 18). President John Sloan had moved to engage Artist Grosz; Director Jonas Lie, a respectable academician, countermoved. Both resigned, Sloan effectually. Artist Lie called Artist Grosz "not a healthy influence for the progress of American youth." In addition it was whispered that Grosz was a Communist...