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...Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery and Browere never...
This week Sculptor Browere's busts went museumwards at last. Financier Stephen C. Clark (who has spent a raft of his Singer sewing machine money on art) bought all 20, presented them to the New York State Historical Association. In a special "Hall of Life Masks" at the Association's museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., they will go on display next June, as the first event in Cooperstown's sesquicentennial celebration of its most famed native son, James Fenimore Cooper-one contemporary whose bust Browere never got round to making...
Held, who is deeply interested in animal life, is now working on the clay statue of a horse, "which may turn out to be a man or a mess." He is also planning a portrait bust of the late Heywood Broun '10, a close friend of the cartoonist...
HYDE PARK, N. Y.--President Roosevelt today cited statistics to support his claim that the New Deal is heading the national economy toward complete recovery and a balanced budget and challenged his opponents to prove that the country is "going bust" under his administration...
...feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...