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Ivan Mestrovic was born in 1883 in Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy...
...important fact that nearly all great Englishmen were born in workmen's houses that causes the present day laborer to desire a good education. In classes at Oxford and Cambridge working men and women have proven their ability to write a better hand than their tutors even if they don't spell as well. This brings up the interesting question of whether it is better to write legibly and spell in correctly or to write illegibly with perfect orthography. Please notice that all American business letters have type-written as well as penned signatures...
...Born. To Mrs. Wayne C. ("Big") Munn, wife of the famed heavyweight wrestler (see SPORT just above) a daughter (11 Ibs.); at Kansas City...
...Story. "Peter is born." Thus his story begins. Red snow falls. Wolves howl. Peter howls. His mother the Czarina is wafted to heaven. God receives her on His throne of lapis lazuli. The Tsar is dead?Peter's father...
...artist whose one-man show was thus fashionably attended is perhaps best known as Dancer Paul Swan. Born in Springfield,Ill., he has achieved distinction in the U. S. and Europe as a versatile and talented exponent of the dance as well as the graphic and plastic arts...