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With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
...Academy is Britain's greatest R. A., bearded, talented Augustus John. A steady contributor and a potent moneymaker for many years, Artist John has been too sick the past year to do any painting at all. In his honor Sculptor Barney Scale submitted a portrait bust whose bearded dignity was little spoiled by the fact that a prankster's lighted cigaret left in the mouth burned a spot that made Artist John look as though he were suffering from a virulent cold sore...
...then presented the bas-relief bust to President Conant on behalf of the Class of 1937. Mr. Pennypacker's little granddaughter, Nancy, unveiled the tablet...
...bouncing, battling Basques had been almost left to their own quarrels by the Rightist Spain of Generalissimo Francisco Franco this year, but suddenly he sent General Emilio Mola with a mixed force of Spaniards, Germans, Italians and Moors swarming north over the Cantabrian Mountains to get Bilbao or bust...
President Lowell, who will speak briefly at the ceremonies, is the author of the following inscription, above which is a bas-relief bust of Mr. Pennypacker...