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Aubrey Williams' rich planter grandfather voluntarily freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...
Runner-up was John Upley, blacksmith, onetime engraver & decorator at the Rolls-Royce plant at Springfield, Mass., who valued a painting of a hangover at $1,000 the square inch...
...William A. Clark prize went to Eugene Speicher for his famed portrait of a blacksmith, Red Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...
Although it is believed that several spare hammers are in the possession of the University for just such an emergency, none of them have been found. The services of a blacksmith were enlisted yesterday afternoon to construct...
...Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired the manuscript of Longfellow's paean to honest poverty, "The Village Blacksmith...