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Wrote opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
...event of the year took place last week: Pittsburgh's 50th annual Carnegie awards. But just as last year the show did not compare with the old Carnegie Internationals, which displayed such greats as Braque, Matisse, Picasso, and Britain's Augustus John. It was strictly an all-American show by 300 invited artists...
Last week, seven years after her death, Londoners saw the first show of her work. (Her famed brother, swashbuckling portrait-painter Augustus John, had helped promote it.) The sad portraits, flower pieces and cat studies seemed as limited and dim as reflections in a cup of tea, but visitors found them strangely moving...
...fellow-artist believes that she was a genius. Wrote her brother, Augustus John, in Britain's Burlington Magazine: "Few on meeting this retiring person in black, with her tiny hands and feet, a soft, almost inaudible voice, and delicate Pembrokeshire accent, would' have guessed that here was the greatest woman artist of her age, or, as I think, of any other...
Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...