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...week it got new endowments totaling about $500,000 by absorbing Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minn. The student bodies will be combined in Evanston next October, the merged institutions probably named Seabury-Western. Seabury having originally been named for Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, first U. S. Episcopal bishop, ancestor of Ward Seabury, Chicago businessman, and Samuel Seabury, New York inquisitor...
...Sculptor Bufano and the mystery of his great statue of St. Francis. Beniamino Bufano, brother of Puppeteer Remo Bufano, was born in Italy about 1890, went to New York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ is minus a trigger finger...
Back in the U. S. he got a job in the Chicago City Surveyor's Office. The Civil War was brewing. The U. S. Sanitary Commission, ancestor of the Red Cross, held fairs all over the country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment...
...fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...
...deed Dr. Norris, 64, would have lost a $3,300 yearly pension. But the money has no great meaning to him. He is one of the Pennsylvania Norrises whose American ancestor, Isaac, was a friend of William Penn. Isaac Norris' descendants founded Norristown, Pa., became wealthy bankers, merchants, and landowners in & around Philadelphia...