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They met last summer, and soon Fiore asked to do a bust of the master. In ten days it was finished and John was entranced by both Fiore and sculpture. "She's an amazing person," he roars waving his arms. "She's a grand girl and a very talented sculptor." Says Fiore: "We got on like shirt and bottom...
John was so interested in her work that he almost ruined her next sculpture, a bust of his wife. Every few minutes he would stomp in, watch a while, then grumble "I've done 50 portraits of Dodo. I know how she looks, don't I? She has a flat place here. And he would punch his thumb into the clay. Says Fiore: "I couldn't keep him away." Finally she brought down a set of tools for the old painter, and he has been sculpturing ever since...
Then, in 1854, the bacchanalian boom ended and the academic bust began with the first finals. Perhaps to offset the pleasant nostalgia of other documents, Shipton keeps a complete series of all examinations in 641 volumes. They attract a yearly quota of students hoping to find a trend in some lazy professor's questioning technique...
...worst problem was Henry VII, whose nose was gone for good. Howgrave-Graham modeled a new one after a bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum and made Henry VII look like a king again. He patched the top of Edward Ill's head. He sat up all night with Catherine of Valois (queen of Henry V), massaging her for eleven hours with a cellulose solution. "I'm sure she'll be all right now," says Howgrave-Graham. "It would be terribly ungrateful of her if she weren...
Last week the fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...