Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boosters who had advertised Cleveland as the "Fifth City" were irked...
...Kalish is the sort of artist who is written about in news columns rather than on art pages. Both his work and his story are good human interest material. A Polish Jew, he worked for a while in foundries in Cleveland, reproduced in bronze the men he saw there. The New York Evening Post, under a big spread devoted to pictures of his statues, called him the "Walt Whitman of Sculp-ture." The Philadelphia Inquirer gave him a page of its magazine section one Sunday ("Glorifying America's Workingmen in Bronze and Marble") and the Literary Digest wrote...
...went on tour. Shy, roundheaded, soft-eyed and massive, he shook hands gently with mid-western art groups and, rolling up his sleeves, showed his big muscles to anyone asking about them. "Michelangelo was strong, like me," he said. "You have to be strong to do-these things. ..." In Cleveland his Christ, one of the most widely advertised pieces of sculpture in the U. S., was exhibited. Many expressed approval. Buyers-were few. A middle-aged lady, struck by its strong religious content (which, she explained to a reporter, particularly appealed to her because of family troubles encountered in bringing...
Announcement was made at the meeting of the recent appointment by the presidents of the Associated Harvard Clubs and of the Harvard Alumni Association of Chester C. Bolton '05, of Cleveland, as a member of the Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death last August of C. Chauncey Stillman '98, of New York. Bolton, up to the beginning of the War, was associated with the Bourne. Fuller Company of Cleveland, in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. At the outbreak of the War, he went to Washington, first as secretary of the General Munitions Board...