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...eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...
...JAMES BECK wish to make immediate PURCHASE HOUSE in MAYFAIR; lease 10 to 15 years; nine to 11 bed rooms required.?Telephone Paddington...
...colored sinks, for "electric" sinks, for other plumbing fixtures manufactured by "Kohler of Kohler." The Kohler in question is Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., newly-elected Governor of Wisconsin. Gov. Kohler also keeps horses, flys an airplane. His nomination was notable in that he defeated Representative Joseph Beck, candidate of the progressive Republicans, headed by Robert La Follette...
...vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...
...propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died in sorrow, little guessing that it would be said of him: "Confucius is China." But such is Author Beck's opinion. Best known for her biographies (by "E. Barrington"), she has long been a student of the Orient. Her present volume is avowedly "popular," readable; but the interpretation is sound, the information valuable...