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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh recently called on Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. He saw a bust of himself standing on the mantlepiece, looked at it with a pained expression, said: "Don't like it. Makes me look like a high school debater...
...many tablets, good carved bronze, a bust...
...case of Austria is explained by the martial weakness of that country," continued Professor Langer, "while he does not employ it with Savoy and Nice, the real power of the opposition. By this catering to the public taste, and by such means as his bringing out a bust of himself as successor of the old Romans, he shows his understanding of Italian hearts and their love of the spectacular. Thus he makes himself a hero in their eyes. I don't believe that he personally believes very seriously his superficial policy of reconstructing the old Roman Empire...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...
Advertisement for Listerine shaving soap: bearded bust, staring with curiosity and disapproval upward, into an imaginary mirror...