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When the formidable Augustus John displayed an accumulation of his paintings, as he did every decade or so in London, the occasion was apt to follow a rigid ritual. The critics would arrive, admire the deft draftsmanship, and report in awe that though John did not change, he never seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle...
Whatever he did, Augustus John did with dash, and that often made it hard to see the man and his work in perspective. "I'm just a legend," he once said. "I'm not a real person at all." His life on the surface seemed a series of poses, and his work at times seemed too facile to be true. Actually, few men lived with greater gusto or, in portraits at least, were so penetrating on canvas. When John died quietly last week at the age of 83, it was as if another door had closed on that...
...Reported TIME, July 2, 1945: "There was no simple touchstone, no all-embracing word to sum up the world organization that emerged this week from San Francisco. Augustus had sought the security of his world through Roman 'justice'; Gregory through Christian 'brotherhood'; Napoleon through 'law' and the Grand Army; Metternich through 'legitimacy'; Wilson through 'democracy.' The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said 'security.' By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
...most distinguished courts moved two of the nation's most widely known men of law. The court: the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont and which was long graced by the presence of the late Learned Hand and his cousin Augustus. The men: Thurgood Marshall, longtime special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME cover, Sept. 19, 1955), and U.S. District Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman...
Learned Hand was marked for the bench: his father and grandfather were both distinguished judges; a cousin. Judge Augustus N. Hand, served with him for years on the Court of Appeals in New York (their fellow judges sometimes referred to them as "the left Hand and the right Hand"). At Harvard, Learned Hand majored in philosophy, studied under Santayana. Josiah Royce and William James, and graduated summa cum laude before moving on to law school. As a young lawyer in an Albany firm, he prospered, but he longed to sit on the other side of the bar. President William Howard...