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...calm, small, square-cut sculptor named Costantino Nivola has finished what may be the biggest single bas-relief in modern history. Darius the Mede and Nebuchadnezzar ordered bigger ones, but the ancient rulers never saw anything remotely like Nivola...
Made of reinforced concrete, in 132 numbered panels weighing 110 tons, the bas-relief lay face down last week in back of Nivola's summer home at East Hampton, N.Y. Seven huge platform trucks will soon transport it to Hartford, Conn., where it will be fitted to the steel frame of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem...
...Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand to cry "Halt...
...with a strong latent hold on the lowly blacks of Port-au-Prince. Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral lawyer named Franck Sylvain. It was a popular choice: as a judge during Magloire's regime, Sylvain earned a reputation for courage by ruling...
...president of Ellenville's Home National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head usher of the Methodist Church. In the quiet...