Word: bellerophon
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...latest work of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, a magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot to keep him from crashing...
Sculptor Milles has long been fascinated by the legend of the winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
...ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., "Big Red" reaches the grand old age of 25-an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man-and without a grey hair to show...
That TIME should murder sleep of ignorance, yes - we might even say, Bellerophon like, it has been the stalwart steed of many a noble young thought - but - to base its attack on the one real thought that came out of the depression, upon a lack of credentials!!! How unfortunate, those seeking refuge in the Ark could not prove they had come over on the Mayflower...
When, in 1815, Napoleon I was a prisoner on the British warship Bellerophon, thousands of sturdy Britons flocked to Plymouth Harbor in the hope that the Ogre might show himself on deck. When, last week, two Napoleons of U. S. finance reached London on a diplomatic, but controversial errand, they were regarded with less hostility but with almost as much curiosity. "American Millionaires in Kingsway," headlined the London Standard, "Sir Hugo Meets the United States Giants," cried the London Evening News. Much has Britain lately worried concerning the U. S. Money; now Yankee Doodle had certainly come to town...