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Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
...Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan...
Donna Elsa stopped writing, content to help order Respighi's career. She stood proudly by when, in 1932, he put on his academic robe and became a member of Italy's Royal Academy (see cut). On their four U. S. tours she sang little beside his songs. In "The Pines," their villa high on the outskirts of Rome, she was first to sing his new compositions. Now she will write again to raise money for a music foundation in Respighi's memory...
Devil Montanez started his professional career four years ago, when he was 18. Eager to see the world, he sailed for South America, stayed there long enough to become champion of Venezuela. Weary of beating humans, he decided bulls were more his style, set out to become a torero. Bullfight season in Caracas, Venezuela starts with the famed "race" for novice bullfighters in which bulls, being chased through the streets to the bull ring by mounted picadors, are harassed by neophyte toreros all trying to reach the arena last, i.e., closest to the bulls. Devil Montanez won the race...
...Elyria, Ohio. Young Harry's penmanship got him his first job as a bookkeeper. By the late 18903 he was in business for himself, making bicycles. At 30 he had had enough of Elyria, sold out, headed for the cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later formed a higher and bigger holding company. Central States Electric, which eventually got working control of Great North American Co. (TIME...