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Schmitt, a member of Phi Betta Kappa, received the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for a year of study in a French university. He is a History major and a graduate of New Canaan High School, New Canaan, Connecticut...
Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...
They were excellent eyewitnesses, the men & women of that generation. Cannoneer Augustus Buell. himself a memorable witness of Gettysburg, pays a tribute to the reportorial ability of his fellow soldiers: "The men in our Army were in the habit of observing things . . . even in matters of military knowledge far beyond their sphere or control...
...young artist on her first exhibition in London, Master Portraitist Augustus John wrote: "You must admit that it isn't enough to have the eyes of a gazelle (although they are fatal); you also need the claws of a cat in order to capture your bird alive and play with it before you eat it, and so join its life to yours. This is the mystery of painting...
Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...