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Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
...Louis got ready for his next knockout by visiting a Manhattan art gallery, having his picture taken cheek-by-jowl with Sculptress%Ruth Yates's bust of the present world's heavyweight champion...
...Europe's artistic offscourings, memorable for the impressionistic camera work of Photographer Gregg Toland (The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home). It was not a picture to be disregarded or forgotten. But it was distinctly non-Hollywood. Whether Welles and R. K. O. had a surebox-office bust or a sensation that would stir up more fun in the next six weeks than Russell Bird well stirred up for Gone With the Wind, depended in great measure on how wrathfully Columnist Parsons got up from her seat...
...capable of quelling trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...