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...been taught that the local artist of whom their fathers had been so proud was an artless fellow who did not know how to draw. Yet in Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art was proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about...
...Left. By Caleb Conley Dula. onetime president and board chairman of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., who died in December 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931): a net estate valued at $14,831,387; to his widow Mrs. Julia Q. Dula...
...secret studio to which he escapes from moppets who make pilgrimages to the Peter Rabbit Man. He collects Spanish furniture, ship models, Persian ceramics. He travels where he will when he will, and life has left him, at the age of 56, as healthy and bright-eyed as Caleb Cottontail himself...
...Charles Henry Forbes, who had functioned during Dr. Stearns's absence. Bald, smooth-faced "Jack" Fuess (pronounced "Feece") has long edited the alumni bulletin and is secretary of the alumni fund. His fame reaches far beyond Andover as a scholarly biographer of Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz, Rufus Choate, Caleb Gushing. He is now working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge, though not an official one-Mrs. Coolidge has not given Dr. Fuess her late husband's papers. Mrs. Fuess changed his name to '"Jack" years ago because she could not bear "Claude." Once the late Poetess...
Trinity has been looking for a rector to succeed the late, genial, Anglo-Catholic Dr. Caleb Rochford Stetson, who died last June (TIME, June 27). Last October The Chronicle, liberal Episcopal monthly, urged the Trinity vestry to pick a liberal churchman rather than a Catholic as it has usually done. Last week, after lengthy consideration, the vestry made known its choice, a broad churchman who is nonetheless Catholic enough to suit Bishop Manning who immediately confirmed the appointment. He is Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, 46, a slender, six-foot, bespectacled clergyman who began his career as a baker...